by admin | Jun 30, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Serena Williams bit her upper lip. She held her left hand over her mouth and tried to hold back tears while getting ready to serve. It was the first set of her first-round match Tuesday at Wimbledon, and Williams knew this stay at a tournament where she has won seven...
by admin | Jun 30, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Gwen Goldman exchanged fist bumps with the New York Yankees she had been admiring for decades from afar, walked onto the field and waved to the crowd. She got to be a Yankees’ bat girl on Monday night at age 70 — a full 60 years after she was turned down because of...
by admin | Jun 29, 2021 | #MeToo, Leadership, SEW
The Washington Football Team named Tanya Snyder as co-CEO on Tuesday — a significant shakeup to the franchise’s structure amid an ongoing investigation into sexual harassment allegations into the team’s workplace. She will share duties of CEO...
by admin | Jun 29, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Duke women’s basketball coach Kara Lawson still gets intimidated. But not for reasons you’d imagine. Last week, Lawson joined LPGA player Stacy Lewis at the annual KPMG Women’s Leadership Summit to discuss what it means to break barriers and empower...
by admin | Jun 29, 2021 | Representation, SEW
As many women as men will compete in an Olympic canoeing event for the first time when the paddlers gather at the artificial slalom and sprint courses in Tokyo on July 23 for the 2020 Summer Games. That push for equality on the water parallels changes in sports such...
by admin | Jun 29, 2021 | Representation, SEW
An Olympic race of sorts ends on Tuesday, and this time Caster Semenya will not reach the finish line first. Tuesday is the deadline for Semenya to gain a qualifying time in the women’s 5,000 meters for the Tokyo Games that begin July 23. She defiantly refused to...
by admin | Jun 29, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Former United States Women’s National Team star Mia Hamm is back to breaking records after her rookie card sold for $34,440 this weekend. The 1992 rookie card nearly doubled the previous record for the most expensive female sports card, per ESPN. Hamm’s rookie card is...
by admin | Jun 28, 2021 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW
The email showed up at 3:29 p.m. on a Friday in February. In 31 minutes, there would be an “Important Meeting”—the only two words in the subject line of a Washington Football Team executive’s email. Candess Correll decided she wouldn’t be joining the Zoom call. She...
by admin | Jun 28, 2021 | Representation, SEW
American athlete Sydney McLaughlin obliterated the women’s 400m hurdles world record at the US Olympic trials on Sunday. The 21-year-old ran an astonishing 51.90 seconds, smashing the previous record by .26 seconds to become the first woman to run the 400m...
by admin | Jun 28, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The five-time Olympic medalist finished first in the two-day competition overall, with a score of 118.098. Biles actually finished second on day two to Suni Lee with a 57.533, but again, won the overall meet with 118.098. Biles hesitated on the uneven...
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