by admin | Feb 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
With the Winter Olympics and Black History Month in full effect, it’s only right that we highlight trailblazer Dominique Dawes, who made history in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. She became the first Black American gymnast to take home gold as part of her team’s...
by admin | Feb 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The start of a new World Cup cycle is a time of optimism. There are new players to observe, and perhaps some new tactics to try out. All of a team’s dreams, especially for one as talented as the United States women’s national team, are possible. Reality...
by admin | Feb 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
New Zealand’s Zoi Sadowski-Synnott had just come up short in her bid for the gold medal in the Olympic women’s snowboard big air contest, but she didn’t even release her boots from her board before diving into a bear hug with winner Anna Gasser of Austria, who was...
by admin | Feb 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Eileen Gu and Kamila Valieva became the teenage faces of the Winter Olympics, but their memories of Beijing 2022 are likely to be wildly different. San Francisco native Gu is now a two-time gold-medalist, the Olympics’ youngest ever freestyle skiing champion, a...
by admin | Feb 18, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The 2022 SheBelieves Cup began for the United States Women’s National Team last night, as they battled to a 0-0 draw against the Czech Republic. The match saw many of the next wave of USWNT stars take the field, with Trinity Rodman making her international debut. Now,...
by admin | Feb 18, 2022 | Representation, SEW
U.S.-born freeskier Eileen Gu of China said she’s tired and wants to sleep for days and days yet honored to walk away with the accolades after earning freeski halfpipe gold for her third medal at the 2022 Winter Games. Read More
by admin | Feb 18, 2022 | Guest Blogs, SEW
It’s the same story just a different sport, but the U.S. women’s national team is not having it. It’s been more than two decades since Megan Cnota told police how National Women’s Soccer League coach Rory Dames made demeaning sexual jokes at her when she was a minor....
by admin | Feb 18, 2022 | Representation, SEW
NBC Olympics host Mike Tirico called on the International Olympic Committee to take action after Russian figure skating coaches “failed to protect” Kamila Valieva, the 15-year-old star at the center of a doping scandal that dominated the second half of the Beijing...
by admin | Feb 18, 2022 | Representation, SEW
U.S. Olympic champion gymnast Simone Biles jumped to the defense of American skier Mikaela Shiffrin on Thursday after Shiffrin shared on Instagram some of the abusive comments she’s received following her disappointing performances at the Beijing Games, where she...
by admin | Feb 17, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Russian figure skater Anna Shcherbakova took the gold medal in women’s individual program at the Beijing Winter Olympics, in a competition that took place under the shadow of a positive drug test from her teammate Kamila Valieva. Another skater from the Russian...
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