by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
IN SOME WAYS, STILES WISHES her memories of that 2000-01 season could freeze at that airport homecoming. Before an 81-64 national semifinal loss to Purdue in which the Lady Bears scored 40 points fewer than they had four days earlier in winning the regional title...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Get ready for a brand-new Carli Lloyd. After 17 years on the United States Women’s National Team, Lloyd is in the home stretch heading toward her fourth Olympic Games. On Oct. 10 in Stockholm, Sweden, she is expected to become the third soccer player, man or...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
While recovering from shoulder surgery over the summer, Dennis meditated on the Black Lives Matter movement, and it has become increasingly important to her to put her Blackness front and center in an arena that has historically only celebrated Eurocentric standards....
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
BEFORE HER TEAM’S rotation on balance beam at their final home meet of the regular season, University of Arkansas head coach Jordyn Wieber gathers her gymnasts for a huddle. She asks them to take a collective deep breath, calm their energy and focus on the start...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Leadership, SEW
After years of being passed over, in November Ng became the first woman to be named GM of a North American professional men’s team. Landing the Marlins job was a breakthrough, but Ng knows that to keep it—and help others like her follow—she’ll have to win. Read...
by admin | Apr 1, 2021 | Representation, SEW
What film ranked number one? It’s all about the women in “A League of Their Own”. Read More
by admin | Apr 1, 2021 | Representation, SEW
When Sedona Prince, a center on the University of Oregon women’s basketball team, shared a TikTok from the NCAA women’s basketball tournament earlier this month, it went viral. Her video compared the women’s weight room in San Antonio—a single small rack of dumbbells...
by admin | Apr 1, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
The umpires in baseball are often taken for granted, like the field geometry, the bases, the fair poles and the seats in the stands. Except for those moments when a decision angers one team or the other, umpires are part of the background to the game. Perhaps that...
by admin | Apr 1, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Pedro Araujo, the Orlando Pride’s Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, admits he didn’t come into the team’s initiative to launch its new Ad Astra — literally, “to the stars” — jersey with much spacecraft experience. “Yeah, I definitely learned a lot, for...
by admin | Apr 1, 2021 | Representation, SEW, Uncategorized
The year was 1932. The country was enduring the gravest crisis in American History, the Great Depression, yet during that heartache; the Olympics would offer an escape and the world would be introduced to Babe Didrikson. Or later known as Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Read...
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