by admin | May 2, 2024 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
This weekend felt like the poignant close of a monumental chapter in women’s basketball. On Saturday, Maya Moore-Irons was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame. On Sunday, Candace Parker announced she was retiring from the WNBA. Parker, who had signed a...
by admin | Nov 1, 2023 | Representation, SEW
The 2024 WNBA draft lottery will take place Dec. 10 on ESPN, the league announced Tuesday. A 30-minute draft lottery special will air at 4:30 p.m. ET between the last two games of the Basketball Hall of Fame Women’s Showcase tripleheader that day. The draft is...
by admin | Oct 18, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Dutch wheelchair star Esther Vergeer is among three new International Tennis Hall of Fame nominees for the Class of 2023 announced Monday, joining the half-dozen holdovers from the vote last year, the first time in history no one on the ballot was selected. Vergeer,...
by admin | Sep 19, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Serena Williams and Roger Federer are set to make an impressive class of inductees into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.S The tennis legends are retiring from the sport in September after leading their respective tours for decades. Williams, 40, concluded her...
by admin | Sep 12, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Lindsay Whalen needs no introduction in Minnesota. But she does it, anyway, with a simple and humorous “Hey guys. Lindsay,” at Target Center in Minneapolis last month. Outside in the arena hallways are the four WNBA championship trophies she helped bring home. Read...
by admin | Sep 7, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
PRESIDENT AND CEO John Doleva was making what has become a routine phone call for him after more than 20 years with the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. On the other end of the line was New Orleans Pelicans vice president of basketball operations Swin Cash....
by admin | Jun 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Lindsey Vonn, Michelle Kwan, Mia Hamm, Billie Jean King and the late Pat Summitt are among the nine individual women who will be inducted into the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Hall of Fame this summer, along with Michael Phelps and hurdling great Roger Kingdom. Others...
by admin | May 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
She was an original in every way. She helped pave the way and in the end she had seen and done it all. WNBA legend Sheryl Swoopes has an army of accolades that most can only dream of attaining. Beginning with her college days at Texas Tech in which she was a First...
by admin | May 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
This week’s announcement of the U.S. Soccer Federation’s landmark agreement to offer equal pay to the women’s and men’s national soccer teams – including sharing in World Cup prize money – came at the perfect time ahead of the National Soccer Hall of Fame’s Class of...
by admin | May 17, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Most people are great at one thing. But Swin Cash is amazing at many things. A former WNBA champion and All-Star MVP, Cash is still shining as the Pelicans VP of basketball operations and team development (and a soon-to-be 2022 Basketball Hall of Fame inductee). “I’m...
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