by admin | Nov 18, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Five years ago, Lindsey Vonn retired from ski racing, largely because her aching right knee, damaged by high speed crashes and multiple surgeries, could no longer take the stress of the sport. “My career ended with no intention of coming back,” Vonn, the winner of...
by admin | Aug 16, 2024 | Representation, SEW
From Paris to Park City, Olympic Champion Lindsey Vonn is paving the way for future athletes. Kristen Kenney chats one-on-one with the ski racing superstar on her local impact ahead of the 2034 Salt Lake Games. The Paris Olympics showcased the dominance of US Women...
by admin | Nov 15, 2023 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
Barbie, Beyonce, and Taylor Swift may have dominated center stage this year, but women’s sports reached a major inflection point prompting an inflow of investors. One superstar stakeholder is Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn, whose winnings and strategic endorsement...
by admin | Oct 4, 2023 | #MeToo, Leadership, Representation
More and more people are putting more and more money into women’s sports. Need proof? League One Volleyball just brought in $35 million in its second round of fundraising — more than doubling the money invested in the startup league. Investors comprise a roster...
by admin | Mar 21, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Ski legend Lindsey Vonn retired from racing four years ago while describing her body as “broken.” But it looks like she’s put herself back together. Vonn went viral with a ski feat she pulled off in January and recently took part in a Q&A for our parent company...
by admin | Jan 25, 2023 | Representation, SEW
A day after breaking her tie with Lindsey Vonn, Mikaela Shiffrin won again, moving two victories shy of the overall Alpine skiing World Cup record. Shiffrin swept a pair of giant slaloms in Kronplatz, Italy, the last two days to give her 84 World Cup wins, taking...
by admin | Jan 24, 2023 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
To Mikaela Shiffrin goes the crown, literally and figuratively. The 27-year-old Shiffrin broke fellow American Lindsey Vonn’s record for World Cup victories by a female skier with her 83rd win on Tuesday, in a giant slalom race in Kronplatz, Italy. The winner of...
by admin | Jan 9, 2023 | Representation, SEW
U.S. skier Mikaela Shiffrin has tied Lindsey Vonn’s record for the most alpine World Cup wins by a woman, at 82. Shiffrin, 27, took home the title Sunday during the giant slalom event in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. She beat Italy’s Federica Brignone by 0.77...
by admin | Jan 3, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin‘s first heartwarming experience of the season occurred far from TV cameras on an Austrian slope in November. It wasn’t the last. After the first giant slalom was canceled due to weather, Shiffrin trained slalom in the Tyrolean village of Pitztal. One...
by admin | Dec 19, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin earned her first super-G win in nearly three years, her 77th World Cup victory overall to move five shy of Lindsey Vonn‘s female record. Shiffrin prevailed by 12 hundredths of a second over Italian Elena Curtoni in St. Moritz, Switzerland, on Sunday....
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