by admin | Feb 25, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The conversation around who should be the 2021-22 women’s college basketball national player of the year is racing toward a fever pitch. The Aliyah Boston vs. Caitlin Clark debate is taking center stage. Throw in Baylor’s NaLyssa Smith, the projected No. 1...
by admin | Feb 25, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
What’s my purpose? I think I’m still figuring that out in my life, figuring that out in my career path, figuring that out in myself. You wouldn’t know it, but I’m an introvert. I’m a homebody. Right now, I’m headfirst into any and all things coaching—studying and...
by admin | Feb 24, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
In the summer of 2020, as news spread of a 29-year-old Black man clinging to life after being shot seven times by a Kenosha, Wis., police officer, the Mystics convened an emergency team meeting inside the league’s COVID-19 bubble in Bradenton, Fla. There was no doubt...
by admin | Feb 24, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Several members of the U.S. Women’s National Team displayed wristbands that read “Protect Trans Kids” during the team’s 5-0 victory over Iceland in the SheBelieves Cup final on Wednesday. The show of solidarity during the game — which took...
by admin | Feb 24, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Eleven years after she was drafted into the WNBA, center Liz Cambage is finally where she wanted to be all along: with the Los Angeles Sparks. Cambage was introduced by the Sparks in a news conference Wednesday at Crypto.com Arena. She talked about what she hopes to...
by admin | Feb 24, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
When Edniesha Curry first found out new Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups was interested in talking with her, she was skeptical. After all, the California-born Curry was a longtime Lakers fan who rued when Billups and the Detroit Pistons beat Los Angeles in the...
by admin | Feb 24, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The United States women’s national soccer team won the 2022 SheBelieves Cup after beating Iceland 5-0 in a must-win game on Wednesday, and goal scorers Catarina Macario and Mallory Pugh were among the players who successfully auditioned for the chance to lead...
by admin | Feb 24, 2022 | Representation, SEW
It’s one thing for the decision-makers around women’s soccer to vow, after a year plagued by off-field problems, that they are finally listening to the players. It’s apparently quite another thing for everyone to actually do it. Look no further than...
by admin | Feb 24, 2022 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
Former USA goalkeeper Hope Solo said on Wednesday the women’s national team’s $24m settlement with US Soccer over an equal pay lawsuit was not the huge win it was being trumpeted as but rather “heartbreaking and infuriating”. “Read the fine print. ‘Contingent upon the...
by admin | Feb 24, 2022 | Representation, SEW
There’s a new kind of dribble bouncing around the Candace Parker household. The WNBA champ welcomed a baby boy with wife Anna Petrakova on February 11, the couple shared on social media. “We are in absolute love and utter appreciation that Goose chose us,” Parker...
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