by admin | Aug 15, 2023 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Coach Billie Moore sat her basketball team down before its 1976 silver medal match against Czechoslovakia at the Montreal Summer Games. The squad had endured a long and winding journey to get to this point, now on the precipice of history. Moore delivered an important...
by admin | Aug 7, 2023 | Representation, SEW
When Simone Biles returned to training less than a year ago, she wanted to have fun and get back into shape. That’s it. She popped in and out of the gym, sometimes taking off for long stretches. She had speaking engagements in the fall, then became busy with the...
by admin | Jul 17, 2023 | Representation, SEW
The youngest member of the U.S. Olympic team in Tokyo is the first member of the U.S. Olympic team for Paris. Katie Grimes, 17, became the first American to make the 2024 Olympic team across all sports by winning a bronze medal in the open-water 10km at the world...
by admin | May 5, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Jordan Larson, who in Tokyo captained the U.S. to its first Olympic women’s volleyball title as tournament MVP, is returning to the national team for the first time since the Games. Larson, 36, competed at the last three Olympics, winning a medal of every color. Read...
by admin | May 4, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Tori Bowie, the sprinter who won three Olympic medals at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, has died. She was 32. Bowie’s death was announced Wednesday by her management company and USA Track and Field. No cause of death was given. “USATF is deeply saddened by the passing...
by admin | Apr 3, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Hilary Knight headlines a U.S. women’s hockey roster for this month’s world championship that lacks some of the biggest names from last year’s Olympic silver-medal team. Changes have been made as the U.S. looks to end losing streaks to Canada, both overall and in...
by admin | Mar 10, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Australian swimming star Kaylee McKeownsmashed the women’s 200 metres backstroke world record at the NSW State Championships in Sydney, Australia on Friday 10 March. The 21-year-old reigning Olympic champion won the final of the discipline in 2:03.14 breaking the...
by admin | Mar 1, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Becoming a pioneer for Black American women in track and field wasn’t initially on the radar for Alice Coachman, but that’s exactly what happened in 1948 when Coachman became the first Black woman ever – from any country – to win an Olympic gold medal. This summer...
by admin | Feb 20, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Femke Bol, the Olympic 400m hurdles bronze medalist, broke the longest-standing world record in a track race, taking down a 41-year-old record in the women’s indoor 400m on Sunday. Bol, 22, ran 49.26 seconds at the Dutch indoor championships in Apeldoorn. “When I...
by admin | Feb 8, 2023 | Representation, SEW
It’s a not-so-happy Olympic anniversary this week. A year ago, Russia won the team figure skating event at the Beijing Winter Games, powered by teenage phenom Kamila Valieva. But her subsequent positive drug testmarred the Games and left the team results in...
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