by admin | Sep 30, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Before this historic win, the Danish star spent more than a decade at the top of the women’s game, winning 27 WTA titles and becoming the first Scandinavian woman ever to become world number one in 2010. But having suffered two US Open final defeats –– first to Kim...
by admin | Sep 30, 2021 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW
On a July night in 2014, in the waning minutes of a NWSL regular season match between Portland Thorns FC and the Chicago Red Stars, Sinead Farrelly collapsed on the field at the Benedictine University Sports Complex. She had stepped up to defend an opposing player...
by admin | Sep 29, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Sun center Jonquel Jones has won the 2021 WNBA MVP award, the league announced Tuesday. Jones won the award after receiving 48 of the 49 first-place votes from a national panel of sportswriters and broadcasters. Phoenix’s Brittney Griner finished second,...
by admin | Sep 29, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The WNBA semifinals are off with a bang between the Sky-Sun double overtime in Game 1 and Courtney Vandersloot making league playoff history with only the second triple-double. Only the Sky point guard “had not idea” she had that stat line until ESPN...
by admin | Sep 29, 2021 | Representation, SEW
It was when Holly Bradshaw looked at the limited – and rather tiny – options of Team GB kit in front of her as she put her final preparations in place for Tokyo that trepidation set in. “In my head, I was panicking,” she recalls. “I didn’t want to go to the most...
by admin | Sep 28, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The biggest name of the WNBA playoffs first round was a bench player. And woo, indeed. It was Sophie Cunningham who lit up the first round of the 2021 WNBA playoffs and proved the difference in an instant classic on Thursday night. It was her name, not Diana Taurasi...
by admin | Sep 28, 2021 | Representation, SEW
As the person in charge of player development at one of Maryland’s top youth tennis centers, Ali Agnamba has gotten accustomed to newcomers walking through the doors of the Junior Tennis Champions Center (JTCC) without confidence. But Agnamba immediately saw something...
by admin | Sep 28, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Candace Parker’s big week continues. Following single-elimination wins over the Dallas Wings and Minnesota Lynx in the WNBA playoffs in recent days, the 35-year-old Chicago Sky star signed a multi-year extension with Turner Sports, her offseason home in recent...
by admin | Sep 28, 2021 | Representation, SEW
In the first quarter of a mid-August game against the Lynx, Jonquel Jones caught the ball at the crest of the three-point arc and saw a defense arrayed against her. She’d earned the attention. Jones, a 27-year-old Bahamian with bungee-cable limbs and a full-faced...
by admin | Sep 28, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The PFL has announced its official lineup for its 2021 Finals on Oct. 27 — and to no one’s surprise, undefeated female lightweight Kayla Harrison will top the bill. Harrison (11-0) will headline the PFL event oppositie Taylor Guardado (3-1), who emerged as...
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