by admin | Sep 1, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The first-ever women’s division of the American Flag Football League crowned its inaugural champion over the weekend, with The Academy defeating She Blitz 26-0 at AVEVA Stadium in Houston. In addition to the championship trophy, The Academy earned the biggest payday...
by admin | Sep 1, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The United States women’s hockey team is on to the gold medal game at the IIHF World Championship after defeating Finland 3-0 on Monday. Alex Carpenter got the U.S. on the board first, tipped one in from the point to beat netminder Anni Keisala for her third goal of...
by admin | Sep 1, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Runner Breanna Clark won gold in the women’s 400 meters in the T20 classification at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games on August 31, setting a new world record in the process with a time of 55.18 seconds. (The T20 classification is a sport class for intellectual...
by admin | Sep 1, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
A USA Gymnastics reorganization plan includes up to $425 million for survivors who say they were sexually abused by former team doctor and convicted sex offender Larry Nassar. The dollar amount is contained in court documents filed with an Indiana bankruptcy court...
by admin | Aug 31, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Oksana Masters cruised to a gold medal Tuesday in her classification of a hand-cycle time trial in Tokyo. It was her ninth career Paralympics medal and third of the gold variety. Masters, 32, who shuffled between Ukrainian orphanages as a youth with birth defects...
by admin | Aug 31, 2021 | Representation, SEW
At just 23 years old, Naomi Osaka has won four Grand Slam championships, been the highest-paid sportswoman for two years in a row, and became the first tennis player to light an Olympic cauldron. While you might think that gives her all the bragging rights in the...
by admin | Aug 31, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Today, more than 800 million people will have a period. And of those people, many know the anxiety that can come with playing sports during that time of the month. What if there’s leakage? How do I play through the pain? Layshia Clarendon gets it. “I have had a period...
by admin | Aug 31, 2021 | Representation, SEW
What’s old is new again. WSLAM started out two years ago as a channel on social media under SLAM, the basketball magazine running for over two decades. Now, the digital vertical covering women’s basketball is going analog, with a special print issue on Sept. 15...
by admin | Aug 31, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
As a prep star at Harrisonburg High School, Kristi Toliver wore the No. 5 on her jersey because of Jason Kidd. So it was quite the full-circle moment for Toliver, whose basketball journey had since taken her from Virginia Ms. Basketball to NCAA champion to two-time...
by admin | Aug 30, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah won the 100 meters in 10.72 seconds at the Diamond League meeting in Paris without in-form Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce to rival her on Saturday. Thompson-Herah quickly raced clear with a legal tailwind at the Charlety Stadium to...
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