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 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
There is a circular poetry to this NCAA women’s basketball tournament. It is beautiful and sad, a clash between the game’s evolution and the NCAA’s stagnant leadership in prompting gender equality. It is also instructive, how the sport keeps spinning its history...
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 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
IN SOME WAYS, STILES WISHES her memories of that 2000-01 season could freeze at that airport homecoming. Before an 81-64 national semifinal loss to Purdue in which the Lady Bears scored 40 points fewer than they had four days earlier in winning the regional title...
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 30, 2021 | Guest Blogs, SEW
To no one’s surprise, women are being treated with less respect than men. The N.C.A.A apologized on Friday, March 19, for the unequal workout facilities given to the women’s teams during the championship tournament. March is Women’s History Month,...
by admin | Mar 28, 2021 | Pay Equity, SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight (once again) goes to soccer superstar, Megan Rapinoe. The USWNT member offered video testimony before the House Oversight Committee in Washington for Equal Pay Day. ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to the NCAA...
by admin | Mar 27, 2021 | Representation, SEW
UConn’s Paige Bueckers and Iowa’s Caitlin Clark were once teammates playing for their country. On Saturday (1 p.m. ET, ABC/ESPN App) in the 2021 NCAA women’s basketball tournament, their teams will face off with the country watching. Bueckers’...
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