by admin | Feb 8, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Last night, the Canadian women’s hockey team played their Olympic hockey match against the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) while wearing N95 masks. Shortly before the game, all appeared to be normal with both teams taking warm ups together on the ice. But Team Canada...
by admin | Jan 17, 2022 | Representation, SEW
For lifelong baller Caren Cao, playing in a co-ed basketball league wasn’t much fun. “If it’s a competitive league, men don’t take you seriously,” she says. “If it’s a casual game, they won’t even put in a full effort to guard you.” Read...
by admin | Jan 10, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
News of the hiring of Victor Lapena yesterday as the head coach of Canada’s senior women’s basketball team was a long time coming – the qualification tournament for this year’s World Cup is about a month away and that’ s not a lot of prep time for any coach let alone...
by admin | Dec 27, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
With the year winding down and few Canadians paying attention on the last Monday before Christmas, swimmer and Olympic gold medallist Maggie Mac Neil set a short-course world record in the 50-metre backstroke in Abu Dhabi. It was an entirely appropriate coda to...
by admin | Dec 27, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The Canadian Olympic mixed doubles curling trials were canceled due to a rise in positive COVD-19 tests among athletes, among other pandemic reasons, two days before they were to start in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. “The increasing numbers of trials-bound athletes...
by admin | Dec 17, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
Times are changing and the needs and interests of the players are being put first. It’s an exciting and liberating time for the players and an unstable, but hopeful, time for the league. Professional women’s soccer leagues in the United States have historically...
by admin | Nov 20, 2021 | Representation, SEW
History beckons for the Red Roses. A win against the USA on Sunday and Simon Middleton’s England Women will equal the record for most consecutive Test wins – 18 – held by their country’s men’s team and that of New Zealand. One more after that and they will stand alone...
by admin | Nov 19, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Sandi Leroux remembers the yelling the most. The mother of Sydney Leroux has a story to tell about her daughter’s experience climbing the ladder of Canadian soccer’s elite player programs before she switched allegiance to the United States, with whom she won Olympic...
by admin | Oct 18, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Kaillie Humphries, the world’s most successful female bobsled driver, lives an American life with her American husband in an American townhouse on an American cul-de-sac about a mile from the first American Legoland. A Team USA flag flutters beside her front door. She...
by admin | Aug 17, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Canada women’s national team goalkeeper Stephanie Labbe announced her engagement to fellow Olympian Georgia Simmerling in an Instagram post on Monday. Labbe, who was instrumental in securing gold with Canada at the Tokyo Olympics, posted that Simmerling, who has...
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