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Aug 9 – Aug 15, Highlights and Lowlights

by admin | Aug 15, 2021 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights

? This week our highlight goes to Breanna Stewart, the Seattle Storm player was named the MVP of this week’s inaugural Commissioner’s Cup. ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to the Washington Spirit’s former coach, Richie...

‘He made me hate soccer’: Players say they left NWSL’s Spirit over coach’s verbal abuse

by admin | Aug 12, 2021 | Representation, SEW

It wasn’t very long into her rookie season with the Washington Spirit before Kaiya McCullough became terrified to make a mistake. Throughout training and scrimmages last year, McCullough said, the team’s now-former coach, Richie Burke, screamed at her, and he didn’t...

Sick of side hustles, NWSL players push back in fight for labor rights

by admin | Aug 11, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW

Kristen Hamilton has won three National Women’s Soccer League championships, tied the record for goals scored in a game and, in 2019, played for the U.S. women’s national team. She’s not a household name, but she is one of the best women’s soccer players in the world....

Megan Rapinoe & Sue Bird: USA power couple’s Olympic photo goes viral

by admin | Aug 9, 2021 | Representation, SEW

Between them, they boast six Olympic gold medals, two FIFA World Cups, and four WNBA titles, to name just a fraction of what the duo has achieved in their individual careers. But the two elite-level athletes aren’t just icons in their own right – they are a...

USWNT underwhelmed in bronze-medal Olympic run, so what comes next for ageing Americans?

by admin | Aug 8, 2021 | Representation, SEW

The U.S. women’s national team will leave the Tokyo Olympics with a bronze medal in hand, and a final performance that looked a bit more like what we all expected to see from the No. 1-ranked team in the world. The bronze-medal game was the first in Japan in...

Megan Rapinoe congratulated Canada’s Quinn after they became the first out trans gold medalist in Olympic history

by admin | Aug 8, 2021 | Representation, SEW

For the first time, Canada’s women’s soccer team has won gold at the Olympic Games. Canada’s victory in penalty kicks against Sweden was monumental in more ways than one. In addition to the country winning its first title at a major international...

Soccer Legend Christine Sinclair Getting Moment in the Spotlight She Deserves

by admin | Aug 6, 2021 | Representation, SEW

Nine years ago, the London Olympics played host to one of the legendary matches in USWNT history. The U.S. defeated Canada 4-3 in extra time, scoring the winner in the 123rd minute. I mean “legendary” in the everyday sense; it was a thriller, an instant...

Trump slams US women’s soccer team: Would have gold if not ‘woke’

by admin | Aug 5, 2021 | Representation, SEW

Former President Trump on Thursday criticized an old target — the U.S. women’s national soccer team — by saying players would have won the gold medal and not the bronze at the Olympics if they weren’t “woke.”  “Woke means you lose, everything that is woke goes bad,...

Olympic Bronze, Rediscovered Joy and a Look Ahead for the USWNT

by admin | Aug 5, 2021 | Representation, SEW

If this is indeed the end of an era, or at least the end for a few decorated U.S. women’s national team stars, it at least concludes with a medal and some style points. The U.S. captured Olympic bronze for the first time on Thursday, rediscovering the joy that...

USWNT’s Alex Morgan ‘devastated’ by Canada loss, Megan Rapinoe ‘gutted’

by admin | Aug 3, 2021 | Representation, SEW

United States women’s national team forward Alex Morgan has said she is “devastated” that they will not compete for the Olympic gold medal, while Megan Rapinoe said she was “gutted” about the defeat...
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