by admin | Oct 18, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
The University of South Carolina Board of Trustees approved a historic seven-year, $22.4 million contract for women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley. Per the school’s press release, Staley is now the highest paid Black head coach in her sport and one of the...
by admin | Oct 1, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
Haley Lorenzen was once one of the most reliable players on the Florida Gators women’s basketball team. During her senior year in 2017-18, the 6-3 forward became just the 10th Gator to start 100 career games. But that same season, her first under Florida’s...
by admin | Sep 26, 2021 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight goes to Melanie Newman and Jessica Mendoza who will be ESPN’s first all female MLB broadcast team. ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to Georgia Tech, who’s women’s basketball team has been put on...
by admin | Sep 24, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Seven-time Olympic gold medalist Katie Ledecky has joined the Florida swimming and diving program as a volunteer swimming coach. Ledecky announced on Wednesday that she will train for the 2024 Olympics in Gainesville with Florida head coach Anthony Nesty, who was an...
by admin | Sep 22, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The NCAA placed Georgia Tech’s women’s basketball program on probation for three years Tuesday, citing violations committed under former coach MaChelle Joseph that included players being forced to practice longer than the rules allow and on scheduled off days. The...
by admin | Aug 5, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Longtime women’s basketball coach June Daugherty, who spent 11 seasons at both Washington and Washington State, died Monday at her home in Boise, Idaho. She was to turn 65 next week. Daugherty’s husband, Mike, who was also her assistant coach throughout...
by admin | Aug 4, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
The NCAA has for years treated women’s basketball as inferior to men’s, a stinging external review found, dramatically undervaluing and undermining the women’s game in ways that go far beyond the substandard weight rooms exposed at its championships in March. The...
by admin | Jul 16, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Baseball has long been considered America’s pastime, though it has also been dominated by male players from the beginning. Slowly, Major League Baseball has opened its doors to women — while not on the field itself, in positions such as coaches,...
by admin | Jun 29, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Duke women’s basketball coach Kara Lawson still gets intimidated. But not for reasons you’d imagine. Last week, Lawson joined LPGA player Stacy Lewis at the annual KPMG Women’s Leadership Summit to discuss what it means to break barriers and empower...
by admin | Jun 17, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The NCAA said Wednesday that its softball committee is “soliciting feedback” on the recent criticism and complaints about the Women’s College World Series — which marked just the latest women’s championship to face inequity issues. Oklahoma beat Florida State last...
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