by admin | Jan 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
As captain of the U.S. women’s soccer team, Becky Sauerbrunn is an expert when it comes to navigating tough conversations. But this fall, the prospect of one particular conversation scared her. Sauerbrunn had decided to freeze her embryos. “Broaching the subject with...
by admin | Jan 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Coming into Thursday, there were three undefeated teams left in Division I women’s basketball. But after No. 5 NC State’s 72-45 victory over visiting No. 19 North Carolina on Thursday, only two are left: No. 4 Arizona and Colorado of the Pac-12. The Tar...
by admin | Jan 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Thursday night at the U.S. Olympic figure skating trials, as younger women started to secure their places on the 2022 Olympic team, another woman, an older skater with the name that everyone still knows, offered a glimpse of her magical past on her singular journey...
by admin | Jan 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
American women helped lead the international fight to include women’s ski jumping in the Winter Olympics, and the U.S. team was once ranked No. 1 in the world. But in a major blow to the program, American women failed to garner enough points in qualifying competitions...
by admin | Jan 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The two oldest skaters produced the most memorable performances of the U.S. Figure Skating Championships women’s short program. Mariah Bell, a 25-year-old bidding to be the oldest U.S. Olympic women’s singles skater in 94 years and the oldest national champion in 95...
by admin | Jan 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Top-ranked Ashleigh Barty has advanced to the Adelaide International semifinals with a 6-3, 6-4 win over 2020 Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin, while Rafael Nadal advanced via a walkover in tuneup tournaments ahead of the year’s first Grand Slam event. Barty...
by admin | Jan 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Two years after retiring as the most decorated and fearless female skier of all time, Lindsey Vonn is sharing painful new details about the highs and lows of her storied career including the countless physical injuries she endured along the way — and, most poignantly,...
by admin | Jan 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Becky Hammon finally will be a head coach. The Las Vegas Aces, an organization in the WNBA, gave her an overdue opportunity, and she will have the control and the support needed to build a championship contender. The news, rightfully, was met with its share of...
by admin | Jan 6, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
After surviving World War II as a girl in Scotland, sometimes zipped into a one-piece garment called a siren suit and hastened into a bomb shelter built by her father, Christine Grant took up sports. From that point, she often said, she could not imagine her life...
by admin | Jan 6, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The phrase “control the controllables” is recited so frequently by athletes that the cliched phrase has lost some of its meaning. But for Olympic cross-country skiing gold medalist Jessie Diggins, that mentality is at the core of her success. “I know I sound like a...
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