by admin | Dec 27, 2021 | Representation, SEW
National Women’s Soccer League expansion team Angel City FC made history by naming Freya Coombe as its first ever head coach. The former NJ/NY Gotham FC manager left the East Coast team to take on the exciting new project and face the challenges of building a side...
by admin | Dec 27, 2021 | Representation, SEW
While 2021 has seen women’s sport go from strength to strength, a number of the world’s most renowned female athletes are continuing to speak out on important issues. Here are five women’s sport activists who have made a difference this year: Read...
by admin | Dec 24, 2021 | Representation, SEW
You may have heard that sports is suffering from a ratings decline in virtually every corner of the television world. That is, with the exception of places like the WNBA, which saw television ratings jump significant once more, part of a story of growth this season as...
by admin | Dec 24, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
It’s been a deeply consequential year for women’s soccer in the United States, one that will reverberate for years to come in a variety of ways. From shiny new sponsorship deals — this week, Crypto.com partnering with Angel City FC, but that is merely the latest — to...
by admin | Dec 24, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
She has already secured a host of high-profile sponsorship deals since her remarkable US Open win in September and now Emma Raducanu has another elite brand in her collection of backers. The teenager who was named as the BBC Sports Personality of the Year for 2021 is...
by admin | Dec 24, 2021 | Representation, SEW
It’s April 15, 2021, the day of the WNBA draft. It’s a day that Evans has prayed for and worked so hard for since she was a fifth grader carrying around a recruitment letter with hot cheeto fingerprints on it from Valparaiso University, a small DI school right outside...
by admin | Dec 24, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The WNBA is quietly getting ready to ramp back up. Teams can start negotiating with free agents in mid-January before officially signing at the start of February. Then, there’s the draft in April and the league’s 26th season tips off just a month later in May. Before...
by admin | Dec 24, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Former Notre Dame women’s basketball coach Muffet McGraw said on a podcast released on Wednesday that ESPN is “Connecticut’s network” and that there is “absolutely complete bias there.” McGraw, speaking to Kate Fagan and Jessica...
by admin | Dec 24, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The North Carolina Courage have apologized to fans upset by the recent signing of Jaelene Daniels, the player who made headlines for refusing a U.S. women’s national team call-up over rainbow-themed gay pride jerseys. The Courage announced on Sunday that the...
by admin | Dec 23, 2021 | Representation, SEW
An exciting women’s bantamweight bout is heading for an upcoming UFC Fight Night event. Two fighters looking to break into the official promotional rankings are set to clash as Jessica-Rose Clark is set to meet Stephanie Egger on Feb. 19. The event does not yet have a...
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