by admin | Apr 5, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Don’t you feel silly now, NCAA. March Madness began with the uproar over the NCAA’s blatant disregard of women’s basketball, Mark Emmert and his cronies apparently believing it to be an extracurricular activity rather than an actual sport. It is finishing with the...
by admin | Apr 5, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Fifty years ago, Carole Oglesby helped establish a governing body for women in college athletics at a time when the National Collegiate Athletics Association only oversaw men’s sports. When she saw images earlier this month of the inferior training facilities provided...
by admin | Apr 5, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Arizona Wildcats women’s basketball coach Adia Barnes said Saturday that she has nothing to apologize for after she used a middle finger and an expletive in a postgame huddle with her team in the joyous moments following a 69-59 win over UConn in the Final Four....
by admin | Apr 4, 2021 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight goes to coaches Dawn Staley of South Carolina and Adia Barnes of the team from Arizona who will make history as the first two Black women to head coaches in the same Final Four. ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
During a meeting of women’s basketball coaches with NCAA President Mark Emmert on Wednesday, Georgia Tech Coach Nell Fortner issued a plea. Instead of treating her sport like a cost to minimize, the NCAA should see it the way so many others increasingly do: as an...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
SAN ANTONIO — Every player who goes to UConn is special. She has to be, playing for a team that’s won a record 11 national championships and knowing she is an heiress apparent to the likes of Rebecca Lobo, Diana Taurasi, Sue Bird, Maya Moore and Breanna Stewart....
by admin | Apr 1, 2021 | Representation, SEW
When Sedona Prince, a center on the University of Oregon women’s basketball team, shared a TikTok from the NCAA women’s basketball tournament earlier this month, it went viral. Her video compared the women’s weight room in San Antonio—a single small rack of dumbbells...
by admin | Apr 1, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Top coaches in women’s college basketball pressed N.C.A.A. executives directly on Wednesday over what they have judged as chronic failures to promote and support the sport — longstanding tensions that have now ignited a public furor over disparities between this...
by admin | Mar 31, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
This year’s March Madness might have exposed gaps in gender equity in college sports, but for two Black women, the 2021 NCAA women’s tournament will always represent a moment when history was made. For the first time in NCAA women’s tournament...
by admin | Mar 31, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The world got its first extended look at Charli Collier this month during the NCAA Women’s Tournament, but WNBA teams have had eyes on her for a while now. Collier, a 22-year-old junior who will graduate this spring and enter the WNBA draft, saw her tourney run...
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