by admin | Apr 4, 2021 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight goes to coaches Dawn Staley of South Carolina and Adia Barnes of the team from Arizona who will make history as the first two Black women to head coaches in the same Final Four. ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Just after Sabrina Ionescu turned pro as one of the most decorated college athletes in NCAA history a year ago, the bidding war was off to the races. Nike, Under Armour and Puma all wanted to sign the former Oregon Ducks star, who was the all-time leader in...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Here’s a weird question. Is it … fitting that Marta has never won the World Cup or Olympics, the two biggest women’s soccer trophies on offer? It’s not that she isn’t the greatest female player of all time without those honors, nor does it minimize her...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
During a meeting of women’s basketball coaches with NCAA President Mark Emmert on Wednesday, Georgia Tech Coach Nell Fortner issued a plea. Instead of treating her sport like a cost to minimize, the NCAA should see it the way so many others increasingly do: as an...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The world now knows Paige Bueckers and Jalen Suggs as freshman phenoms, the outrageously talented point guards leading the top-ranked collegiate teams in the country — the Connecticut women and the Gonzaga men — to their respective Final Fours this weekend. The close...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
There is a circular poetry to this NCAA women’s basketball tournament. It is beautiful and sad, a clash between the game’s evolution and the NCAA’s stagnant leadership in prompting gender equality. It is also instructive, how the sport keeps spinning its history...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
SAN ANTONIO — Every player who goes to UConn is special. She has to be, playing for a team that’s won a record 11 national championships and knowing she is an heiress apparent to the likes of Rebecca Lobo, Diana Taurasi, Sue Bird, Maya Moore and Breanna Stewart....
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Pay Equity, SEW
The Rose Ladies Series has announced an expanded 2021 schedule, with 11 one-day events taking place across the UK over the coming months. Justin Rose and his wife, Kate, put their name and money towards a set of women’s events last year to give playing...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Now 31, a wife and a mother, Wie obviously is in a different place in her life, though in a comeback-bid postpartum it is a familiar place that has the potential to jumpstart it. The former U.S. Women’s Open champion shot a two-under-par 70 in the first round of the...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Chicago Sky star Candace Parker narrated a video essay celebrating the achievements of female athletes to bring Women’s History Month to a close. The video also represented a call to action to continue supporting and lifting up women’s...
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