by admin | Aug 13, 2024 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
The NCAA Board of Governors on Thursday unanimously approved $25 million in additional funding for Division I that will be put toward the creation of the women’s basketball distribution funds. The women’s basketball funds — which were introduced as a...
by admin | Apr 3, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Records were made to be broken, and Caitlin Clark was made to break records. Clark has been the toast of the sports world throughout the 2023-24 season. For much of the season, it’s felt like scoring records were being rewritten every game. But the truth...
by admin | Feb 14, 2024 | Uncategorized
Women’s wrestling on Wednesday took a big step toward becoming the 91st NCAA championship sport, with its projected first NCAA championship occurring in winter 2026. The NCAA Committee on Women’s Athletics voted at its meeting Wednesday to recommend...
by admin | Jan 26, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Coquese Washington never wanted to be a coach. She earned a law degree from Notre Dame and had every intention of practicing law whenever her WNBA playing career ended. Then she got a call from her college coach, Muffet McGraw. Things haven’t been the same since....
by admin | Feb 24, 2023 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
With all of the reports of the NFL stagnating — with three Black head coaches for the third year in a row — it is important to also look at other areas where this has been the case. In college sports, the number of head coaches who were people of color at...
by admin | Oct 31, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Guan Chenchen, the Tokyo Olympic balance beam champion, has left gymnastics to attend college, according to China’s gymnastics federation. In recent months, there were conflicting Chinese media reports on whether Guan, who enrolled at Zhejiang University, retired from...
by admin | Aug 28, 2022 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
👍 This week our highlight goes to the San Diego Wave who will break the NWSL attendance record. 👎 This week we give a thumbs down to colleges who are still giving fewer scholarships to female athletes.
by admin | Aug 22, 2022 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
Within three years of finishing college, Emma Bates was the best female marathoner in the United States. She won the national title in 2018 and was third at the half-marathon championships in 2019. She made her major marathon debut later that year, in Chicago, and...
by admin | Jun 23, 2022 | Representation, SEW
As the nation marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of Title IX, two-thirds of Americans say they know “not much” or “nothing at all” about the federal law that bans discrimination on the basis of sex at schools that receive federal funds, according to a...
by admin | Jun 14, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The notification that San Diego State was cutting its women’s rowing program was delivered, like most bad news in 2020, in a Zoom meeting. Madison Fisk sat at a desk in her bedroom in the off-campus house she shared with several teammates in November 2020 and...
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