by admin | Feb 18, 2022 | Representation, SEW
U.S. Olympic champion gymnast Simone Biles jumped to the defense of American skier Mikaela Shiffrin on Thursday after Shiffrin shared on Instagram some of the abusive comments she’s received following her disappointing performances at the Beijing Games, where she...
by admin | Feb 16, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Simone Biles and Jonathan Owens are now engaged. And though she has 25 world-championship medals, seven national all-around titles, and the same (seven) total Olympic podium finishes, Biles’s gorgeous ringis hardware she’ll be wearing all year round, not...
by admin | Feb 14, 2022 | Representation, SEW
As it has been, and as it always will be, Black female athletes are the beating heart of sports and continue to set the standard for everyone. Long before Colin Kaepernick knelt and John Carlos and Tommie Smith raised their fists on an Olympic podium, there was Althea...
by admin | Feb 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
On Friday, Jordan Chiles and Grace McCallum earned the first perfect 10.0 scores of their collegiate careers in the UCLA-Utah meet. On Saturday afternoon, their Olympic teammate Sunisa Lee followed their lead with a perfect score of her own in Auburn’s meet...
by admin | Feb 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
A day after her Olympic teammates Jordan Chiles and Grace McCallum earned their first career 10.0 scores, Auburn’s Suni Lee said, “Hold my grips” and had a perfect routine of her own for the first time. During Auburn’s meet on Saturday against...
by admin | Feb 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Utah vs. UCLA gymnastics has always been an epic rivalry. And on Friday, both teams brought the firepower. Utah freshman Grace McCallum — a member of the silver-medal-winning U.S. Olympic team in Tokyo — earned her first career 10.0 on bars, with her usual...
by admin | Jan 31, 2022 | Representation, SEW
They struck the “Crimson Crane” pose as Derrian Gobourne put the finishing touches on her floor routine late Friday night. Auburn’s gymnastics team celebrated on the mat with their floor queen, mocking the one-legged karate pose made famous last fall by Alabama’s...
by admin | Jan 27, 2022 | Representation, SEW
While the 2022 season is well underway, sometimes this early on the official rankings don’t tell the whole story. Some gymnasts have only competed an event once while others have competed it four times, or some had off nights on their specialities while others broke...
by admin | Jan 26, 2022 | Representation, SEW
A different kind of Black Girl Fly was on display last week at the University of Florida versus the University of Alabama Women’s Gymnastics competition. Seniors Trinity Thomas and Nya Reed pulled off the upset with consecutive 10.0 scores over No. 11-ranked Alabama,...
by admin | Jan 18, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Gold medal Olympian Sunisa Lee made history not once, but twice. First when she became the first Asian-American to win gold in the all-around gymnastics competition, and again when she became the first American Olympic to move to National Collegiate Athletic...
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