by admin | Aug 7, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Abby Wambach’s prowess on the soccer pitch was on full display during her 14 years with the U.S. Women’s National Team. She scored 184 goals, including a game-tying header off a Megan Rapinoe pass in 2011 that’s considered one of the greatest goals in World Cup...
by admin | Apr 5, 2024 | Representation, SEW
The 2024 Women’s College World Series is 58 days away, but who’s counting? All of March’s excitement, upsets and shuffle in the top-25 has brought the promise of an eventful remainder of the season. With April here, the competition is sure to get...
by admin | Feb 28, 2024 | Representation, SEW
In many parts of Latin America, baseball is a popular and well-established sport with men’s professional leagues in Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela, among others. But women wanting to play baseball’s cousin — softball — professionally had only one option:...
by admin | Oct 27, 2022 | Representation, SEW
When former softball coach Sharon Drysdale arrived at Northwestern in 1979, the team had no field. The Wildcats played at a park on Lincoln Street that featured just benches — no dugouts or fences. Eventually, NU found a home field, but it was still missing fences....
by admin | Jun 13, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Last Saturday, like many days here in early June, was a softball fiesta. The 13,100-seat stadium — burnished and bulked up by a $27.5 million renovation that added a second deck — was teeming with young pony-tailed fans from Alva to Ardmore, partisans in Oklahoma,...
by admin | Jun 10, 2022 | Representation, SEW
After entering the season ranked as the No. 1 team in the country, Oklahoma has once again run the gauntlet to repeat as national champions. The top-seeded Sooners won the Women’s College World Series for the second consecutive year Thursday night, defeating Texas in...
by admin | Jun 9, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The first game of the Women’s College World Series championship finals turned into the Oklahoma home run derby. The Sooners set a WCWS record with six home runs to rout rival Texas 16-1 and move one win away from their second consecutive title and sixth overall....
by admin | Jun 8, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Gritty, unseeded Texas fought off elimination twice in one day to earn a shot at a national championship. Courtney Day hit a three-run homer for the second straight game — this one sparking a rally from a five-run deficit — and Texas stunned No. 7 seed Oklahoma State...
by admin | Jun 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Oklahoma advanced to the championship series with a 15-0 win in five innings over UCLA Monday afternoon. Hope Trautwein pitched all five innings for the Sooners, striking out six batters. Trautwein improves to 21-1 on the season with a 0.49 ERA. Read...
by admin | Jun 7, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Talent certainly does run in the family of the GOAT. Maya Brady, the center fielder for the UCLA softball team and the niece of Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady, had quite the game Monday against top-ranked Oklahoma in the first game of the semifinals of the...
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