SEW Sports Equality for Women
  • SEW
  • Timeline
  • Sports Films
  • Team
  • Mission
    • About Our Logo
  • Contribute
  • Contact
Select Page

Michelle Wie West explains how she lived a “double life” as a young golf phenom

by admin | Apr 1, 2022 | Representation, SEW

You’d think Michelle Wie West’s middle-school classmates would have been astounded by her success as a young golf phenom, but that wasn’t the case. According to the five-time LPGA winner and major champion, it wasn’t cool to be so talented. Wie West had an abnormal...

The Stanford women’s golf team is taking over the Augusta National Women’s Amateur

by admin | Mar 29, 2022 | Representation, SEW

One of the most competitive rounds in women’s golf might not take place at LPGA events. Each Tuesday and Thursday, the Stanford women’s golf team plays qualifiers to determine the top five players to compete in upcoming tournaments. Read More

Hannah Green becomes first female winner of 72-hole mixed-gender tournament

by admin | Feb 21, 2022 | Representation, SEW

Former Women’s PGA champion Hannah Green became the first woman to win a mixed-gender golf tournament over 72 holes when she closed with a 5-under 66 for a four-shot victory in the TPS Murray River on the PGA Tour of Australasia. Green, coming off a victory in...

LPGA’s Madelene Sagstrom shares story of sexual abuse: ‘If I touch one life … it will all be worth it’

by admin | Jan 26, 2022 | #MeToo, SEW

Madelene Sagstrom knows why she did it. She knows why after more than 16 years of living with unimaginable emotional pain she decided to reveal to those closest to her that at the age of 7 she had been sexually abused by a male friend in her native Sweden. And why a...

Jessica and Nelly Korda: The ‘built-in best buddies’ taking the golfing world by storm

by admin | Jan 25, 2022 | Representation, SEW

Playing on a professional golf tour can be a lonely place for players, traveling all over the globe with often very little time spent at home. But for sisters Jessica and Nelly Korda, they have a “built-in best buddy” who comes with them to keep them...

How prepping for the British Open helped Danielle Kang win the LPGA Tour’s 2022 season opener

by admin | Jan 24, 2022 | Representation, SEW

They played the LPGA’s 2022 season opener in Florida, but from the looks of players all bundled up over the weekend at Orlando’s Lake Nona Golf Club, it might as well have been in Ohio. Shorts and short sleeves worn Thursday and Friday at the Hilton Grand...

USGA to nearly double US Women’s Open prize money

by admin | Jan 10, 2022 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW

The U.S. Women’s Open golf tournament prize money will nearly double this year to $10 million, the USGA announced Friday. That number is up from $5.5 million last year and will continue to increase over the next five years to $12 million. It’s the largest purse in...

‘This girl has no fear’: Junior standout with familiar last name is starting her college career early

by admin | Dec 31, 2021 | Representation, SEW

Grace Summerhays is no stranger to tournament golf. In fact, she has tested herself at almost every level of competitive play there is: junior golf, amateur championships, women’s professional events, even men’s Korn Ferry Tour qualifiers. But there’s one stage she...

Jessica and Nelly Korda: The ‘built-in best buddies’ taking the golfing world by storm

by admin | Dec 29, 2021 | Representation, SEW

Playing on a professional golf tour can be a lonely place for players, traveling all over the globe with often very little time spent at home. But for sisters Jessica and Nelly Korda, they have a “built-in best buddy” who comes with them to keep them...

16-Year-Old Golfer Kyndall Campbell Is Driving Her Sport on a New Course

by admin | Dec 13, 2021 | Representation, SEW

At age 16, when it comes to driving, most teenagers think about cars. But not Kyndall Campbell—she thinks about driving golf balls. She is a sweet, smart and demure girl, until she starts talking golf. Then her competitive spirit awakens. The young champion golfer sat...
« Older Entries
Next Entries »

Recent Posts

  • How a Women’s College Volleyball Team Became the Center of the Transgender Athlete Debate
  • Geno Auriemma becomes all-time winningest college basketball coach in 40th year at UConn
  • Lindsey Vonn Plans a World Cup Return as She Rejoins the U.S. Ski Team
  • New York Liberty win their first WNBA title and celebrate the end of a long odyssey
  • Susie Maxwell Berning, Hall of Fame Golfer, Is Dead at 83

Recent Comments

  • Guillermo Duque on Where are the Women? by Paulina Duque
  • Mónica R Pardo on WISE Works by Paulina Duque
  • Guillermo Duque on WISE Works by Paulina Duque
  • Nader on Inequality in Sports Made Its Way Into the N.C.A.A Tournament by Paulina Duque
  • Ingrid Jaillier on Inequality in Sports Made Its Way Into the N.C.A.A Tournament by Paulina Duque
  • Home
  • Timeline
  • Sports Films
  • Team
  • Contribute
  • Privacy Policy
  • Facebook
  • X
In Our Header: Gertrude Ederle, Wilma Rudolph, Thelma “Tiby” Eisen, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Lindsey Vonn, Allyson Felix, and Althea Gibson / In Our Footer: Junko Tabei, Stefania Passaro, Uljana Semjonova, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Mirai Nagasu, and Wyomia Tyus

5005 Linnean Ave NW, Washington DC, 20008 e. cieslafdn@gmail.com | t. (202) 362-5760

© The Ciesla Foundation 2022 DCMA Designated Agent - ken.cieslafdn@gmail.com