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Why there’s a basketball fan frenzy over Iowa’s Caitlin Clark

by admin | Feb 6, 2024 | Representation, SEW

News outlets, including CBS Sports, USA Today and The Baltimore Sun, call it the “Caitlin Clark” effect. Both fans and strangers of women’s college basketball alike have been flocking to watch the 22-year-old University of Iowa student...

Americans Mariah Denigan, Ivan Puskovitch qualify for Olympics in open water swimming

by admin | Feb 6, 2024 | Representation, SEW

U.S. swimmers Mariah Denigan and Ivan Puskovitch clinched Olympic spots in the women’s and men’s open water 10km races at the world championships in Doha this weekend. They joined Katie Grimes on the U.S. Olympic team in the discipline. Grimes previously qualified via...

Chloe Kim becomes first woman to land 1260 in halfpipe

by admin | Feb 6, 2024 | Representation, SEW

Chloe Kim is back as if she never left. At the X Games Aspen over the weekend, the Olympic gold medalist became the first woman to land a 1260 in a women’s snowboard halfpipe competition. She did it during her final run, having already clinched her seventh X Games...

Amber Glenn becomes first openly LGBTQ U.S. women’s figure skating champ

by admin | Feb 5, 2024 | Representation, SEW

Bisexual and pansexual figure skater Amber Glenn won the U.S. women’s figure skating championship on Jan. 26, becoming the first queer woman to take the gold medal. “Being the first openly queer women’s champion is incredible,” said Glenn in a post-competition...

Olivia Giaccio leads U.S. one-two in Deer Valley moguls with historic trick

by admin | Feb 5, 2024 | Representation, SEW

Olivia Giaccio and Jaelin Kauf produced the first U.S. one-two in a World Cup moguls event in more than a decade. Giaccio earned her second World Cup win, while Kauf notched her 33rd podium on Thursday night to open the three-day Intermountain Health Freestyle...

Natasha Cloud signs with Phoenix Mercury

by admin | Feb 5, 2024 | Representation, SEW

Natasha Cloud is headed to Phoenix. The free agent signed with the Phoenix Mercury, the team announced on Thursday. According to The Next’s Howard Megdal, the deal is worth $400,000 over two years. Read More

Sheryl Swoopes thinks Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese are tremendous, but won’t immediately dominate in the WNBA

by admin | Feb 2, 2024 | Representation, SEW

Women’s basketball is seeing a lot of buzz around two young and promising players looking to make the transition to WNBA – Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese. Clark is currently representing the Iowa Hawkeyes, while Reese plays for the LSU Tigers. WNBA franchises are...

To grow the game, media coverage of the WNBA needs to be supported, taken seriously

by admin | Feb 2, 2024 | Representation, SEW

I think it’s time media companies took WNBA coverage seriously. Before you protest, “Of course she is saying that, she’s an WNBA writer,” I’ll tell you what I ALSO am—a NBA writer. Everyday, I see every network, newspaper and media outlet employ people on a full-time...

Tobin Heath visits White House to commemorate equal pay

by admin | Feb 2, 2024 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW

Tobin Heath spent her Monday at the White House, celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Play Act. The Act helped to make equal pay laws more enforceable, and Heath was present at the White House on Monday to talk about the U.S. women’s national...

Angel City FC exec Jess Smith to head Warriors’ WNBA team

by admin | Feb 1, 2024 | Leadership, Representation, SEW

The Golden State Warriors have plucked Jess Smith, the head of revenue for the Angel City Football Club, to be the president of their new WNBA franchise. It’s the first move by the team since the league announced it was expanding to the Bay Area back in July. Smith,...
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