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How a Women’s College Volleyball Team Became the Center of the Transgender Athlete Debate

by admin | Dec 5, 2024 | Representation, SEW

On the court, they seem like any other college women’s volleyball team. At a recent game, the players moved around the court in staccato rhythm, setting and spiking the ball, springing into the air like pogo sticks to block attacking shots, all in their blue and gold...

Geno Auriemma becomes all-time winningest college basketball coach in 40th year at UConn

by admin | Nov 21, 2024 | Leadership, Representation, SEW

UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma passed Tara VanDerveer as college basketball’s all-time winningest coach with the Huskies’ win over Fairleigh Dickinson on Wednesday night in Storrs. Auriemma earned his 1,217th win. The Huskies’ depth, a rarity the past...

Lindsey Vonn Plans a World Cup Return as She Rejoins the U.S. Ski Team

by admin | Nov 18, 2024 | Representation, SEW

Five years ago, Lindsey Vonn retired from ski racing, largely because her aching right knee, damaged by high speed crashes and multiple surgeries, could no longer take the stress of the sport. “My career ended with no intention of coming back,” Vonn, the winner of...

New York Liberty win their first WNBA title and celebrate the end of a long odyssey

by admin | Oct 21, 2024 | Representation, SEW

As confetti fell and Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” blared through the arena, the New York Liberty celebrated the end of a long odyssey. The team that always fell short, starting from their days in Madison Square Garden, through detours to Radio City Music Hall...

Susie Maxwell Berning, Hall of Fame Golfer, Is Dead at 83

by admin | Oct 10, 2024 | Representation, SEW

Susie Maxwell Berning, a three-time champion of the United States Women’s Open golf tournament who was known for her tenacity on the fairway and her grace off it, died on Wednesday at her home in Indio, in Southern California. She was 83. Her daughter Cindy Molchany...

SafeSport shelves probe of former NWSL coach, sparking outcry

by admin | Oct 7, 2024 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW

Once a dominant figure in girls’ and women’s soccer, Rory Dames in recent years has become a symbol of an abusive culture and dysfunctional regulatory system within both pro and youth sports. Articles in The Washington Post detailed former athletes’ allegations of...

A reporter keeps asking about Caitlin Clark. Players want her banned.

by admin | Oct 7, 2024 | Representation, SEW

One day last week, with her team, the Connecticut Sun, in a first-round playoff series against WNBA star Caitlin Clark’s Indiana Fever, guard DiJonai Carrington was surrounded by a group of reporters. Carrington had swatted Clark in the face while reaching for the...

Women’s transfer spend doubles in summer window – FIFA

by admin | Sep 4, 2024 | Representation, SEW

A new report from FIFA has said that $6.8 million was spent on women’s international transfers in the mid-year window from June 1 to Sept. 1 2024, almost double what was spent during the same period in 2023. Internationally, 1,125 transfers were registered in...

Back from Olympics, Uganda’s Rebecca Cheptegei set on fire

by admin | Sep 4, 2024 | Representation, SEW

A Ugandan athlete living in Kenya was attacked and set on fire by her boyfriend and is receiving treatment for burns on 75% of her body, police said. Rebecca Cheptegei, a distance runner who finished at the 44th position in the 2024 Paris Olympics, was attacked in her...

NWSL Power Rankings: Can anyone stop Orlando Pride?

by admin | Sep 3, 2024 | Representation, SEW

It’s Monday, and another week of NWSL action is in the books, which means it’s time for ESPN’s Power Rankings. Our rankings are derived from a combination of key season statistics (points per game, goal differential, expected goal differential),...
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