by admin | Apr 13, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
D.C. United hired Lucy Rushton as its general manager, multiple people familiar with the decision said Monday, making her MLS’s highest-ranking woman in charge of player personnel and one of the few in U.S. professional sports. Rushton’s hiring comes five...
by admin | Apr 13, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Arella Guirantes has seemed destined for the W.N.B.A. ever since she stood 4 feet 7 inches tall as a fifth-grader on the varsity team in summer league at Bellport High School on Long Island. Her basketball skills have always been steps ahead of her peers’, and her...
by admin | Apr 13, 2021 | Representation, SEW
She didn’t know all she’d done, at least at first. Sure, Hope Trautwein knew she’d had a good day in the pitcher’s circle. A very good day. She’d been throwing darts all afternoon for her college softball team, the “Mean Green” of the University of North Texas,...
by admin | Apr 13, 2021 | Representation, SEW
When Awak Kuier was growing up in Finland, she would watch highlights of Candace Parker on YouTube. Kuier loved Parker’s versatility – her ability to handle the ball, run the floor, post up, shoot from 3, even dunk. As an aspiring hooper since she was 11 who couldn’t...
by admin | Apr 13, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Natasha Mack already knows she’s going to cry when she hears her name called in Thursday night’s WNBA Draft. It will be a dream come true for the girl who wrote in the third grade: “I want to be a famous basketball player.” Read More
by admin | Apr 13, 2021 | Representation, SEW
We had three women’s fights we looked at for this week, and two of them ended in round one. At UFC on ABC 2, Mackenzie Dern needed just one round to submit Nina Nunes. Meanwhile, at Bellator 256, Diana Avsaragova made quick work of Tara Graff and Liz Carmouche took a...
by admin | Apr 13, 2021 | Representation, SEW
It had been more than three and a half years since Talita Nogueira had her hand raised in an MMA fight before this past Friday. Nogueira (8-2 MMA, 2-2 BMMA) hadn’t won other than grappling exhibitions since August 2017. Read More
by admin | Apr 13, 2021 | Representation, SEW
One indisputable fact about The Year of the Global Pandemic is that normalcy was redefined. For women’s golf, that means for the first time the Olympics and the Solheim Cup are in the same year. That’s because, despite retaining the title Tokyo 2020, the Games were...
by admin | Apr 12, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Freshman point guards dominated the storylines around the 2021 NCAA basketball tournaments. On the men’s side, Gonzaga’s Jalen Suggs hit one of the most memorable shots in March Madness history, banking in a 3-pointer from just across midcourt to beat UCLA...
by admin | Apr 12, 2021 | Representation, SEW
A Hollywood fantasy turned into reality when Rachael Blackmore became the first female jockey to win Britain’s gruelling Grand National horse race, breaking down one of the biggest gender barriers in sport. Blackmore, a 31-year-old Irishwoman, rode Minella Times to a...
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