by admin | Dec 4, 2023 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW
Thirty-two female athletes filed a lawsuit against the University of Oregon on Friday that alleges the school is violating Title IX. The plaintiffs, who are all either on the varsity beach volleyball team or the club rowing team, are accusing the school of “depriving...
by admin | Jul 28, 2022 | Representation, SEW
A crew of four has broken the women’s record for the quickest time rowing from San Francisco to Honolulu. The record will now be listed in the Guinness Book of World Records. Libby Costello, Sophia Denison-Johnston, Brooke Downes and Adrienne Smith finished their...
by admin | Dec 5, 2021 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight goes to Billie Jean King who both earned the Muhammad Ali Legacy Award and shared her abortion story in support of Roe v Wade. ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to Kirk Shipley, the rowing coach at Walt Whitman...
by admin | Dec 1, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
The rowing season had already ended by the time the seven girls began drafting a letter that they hoped would get their coach fired. They’d spent years competing for the crew team affiliated with Walt Whitman High, one of the Washington region’s highest-achieving...
by admin | Aug 5, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Nevin Harrison was 14 years old when the doctor told her she was finished. All she’d ever wanted to be was an athlete. But athletics, she was told, weren’t feasible. She was, at the time, a multi-sport star with Olympic dreams. “I always dreamed of it being in track,”...
by admin | Aug 5, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Nevin Harrison saved her tears for the finish line, where they came pouring out over a golden smile. The American teenager made women’s Olympic history on Thursday when she surged over the back half of the first canoe 200 sprint final to overtake Laurence...
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