by admin | May 3, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Female artistic gymnasts have been putting up with leotards for years. The standard for athletes taking part in international competition who did not have a religious reason for covering their whole body was outfits which showed their legs and were tight-fitting...
by admin | May 3, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
Nearly three years ago, in New Jersey, late in a National Women’s Soccer League game between Sky Blue F.C. and the Chicago Red Stars, the Red Stars’ striker Sam Kerr flew past the defense, gathered the ball, and unleashed a shot into the low left corner of the...
by admin | May 3, 2021 | Representation, SEW
At the 2021 European Gymnastics Championships in Basel, Switzerland, last week, three members of the German women’s team debuted more than sky-high tricks: First Sarah Voss in the qualifying competition, and then Elisabeth Seitz and Kim Bui in the all-around final...
by admin | May 3, 2021 | Representation, SEW
In 1968 the Romanian gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi saw a six-year-old girl executing immaculately graceful cartwheels during her break at a small rural school. Afterwards he went from classroom to classroom until he found her, and signed her up for his training...
by admin | May 2, 2021 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight goes to the NWHL. The National Women’s Hockey doubled its salary cap for the next season. ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to Stephen A. Smith who ignored Megan Olivi in a tweet about the...
by admin | Apr 30, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Katie Taylor’s faith — in God, in her fists, in herself — is famous, and maybe infamous. Her drive and determination to be the best, at whatever she was doing, is respected the world over. It isn’t something Taylor developed only in recent...
by admin | Apr 30, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Kim Mulkey has moved on, but NaLyssa Smith remains at Baylor and the senior forward leads the way in ESPN’s first women’s college basketball player rankings for the 2021-22 season. Smith, who won the Wade Trophy last season as UConn’s Paige...
by admin | Apr 30, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Clara Lamore figured that making the U.S. Olympic swimming team at 22 was good enough to cap anyone’s athletic career. So after she was eliminated early on at the 1948 Games in London, she threw in the towel, giving up competitive swimming entirely. Thirty-two years...
by admin | Apr 29, 2021 | Representation, SEW
“ ‘Sup, Pepper?” WNBA superstar Sue Bird asked the only 10-year-old on a press call. That 10-year-old was reporter Pepper Persley, who has quickly made a name for herself as a fixture in the women’s basketball press corps. Bird and Diana Taurasi have been some of the...
by admin | Apr 29, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
The National Women’s Hockey League today announced a substantial salary cap increase for its seventh season in 2021-22, doubling it from $150,000 to $300,000 per team. The breakthrough terms were announced by Commissioner Tyler Tumminia. “The NWHL is committed to its...
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