by admin | May 15, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Phoebe Bacon carved a place in the most decorated discipline in American swimming, at a time that the U.S. boasts Olympic and world championships medalists and the world-record holder in the women’s backstrokes. Bacon, an 18-year-old who just finished her...
by admin | Apr 30, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Clara Lamore figured that making the U.S. Olympic swimming team at 22 was good enough to cap anyone’s athletic career. So after she was eliminated early on at the 1948 Games in London, she threw in the towel, giving up competitive swimming entirely. Thirty-two years...
by admin | Apr 12, 2021 | Representation, SEW
When it comes to Katie Ledecky’s ambitious plans for the Tokyo Olympics, the biggest question has always hung like an anchor on her shortest race. So dominant in the longer distances, Ledecky has seen the gap close between her and the top international competition in...
by admin | Mar 16, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
These athletes have eight Olympic gold medals, four WNBA Championship titles and two World Cup wins between them, but Alex Morgan, Chloe Kim, Simone Manuel and Sue Bird noticed something they’re lacking. It’s actually something the entire world lacks — adequate...
by admin | Mar 10, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
A few years after competing in synchronized swimming at the 2012 London Olympics, Szofi Kiss of Hungary began working with a coach from Russia, whom she would identify only by her first name as Natalia. The coach, Kiss said, separated some members of her training...
by admin | Mar 6, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
The pool has long been home to Simone Manuel. Outside of it, the Olympic champion is pushing herself in a new endeavor to boost the profile of women’s sports. She joined with fellow Olympians Sue Bird, Chloe Kim and Alex Morgan to launch TOGETHXR, a media and commerce...
by admin | Mar 5, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
It has been a packed few years for Alex Morgan. She became a World Cup champion (again), a lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against her employer alleging pay inequities and, in the middle of a pandemic, the mother to a little girl, Charlie. Soon she will add...
by admin | Mar 3, 2021 | Uncategorized
As her last swim meet was wrapping up 12 months ago this week, Katie Ledecky was asked about the headlines that seemed to be getting bigger and scarier each day, casting some uncertainty on at least the near future, in and out of the pool. “I’m following it all,” she...
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