by admin | May 24, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Sha’Carri Richardson is the most exciting, compelling, and intriguing sprinter since Usain Bolt. The world just doesn’t know it yet. It’s not only that the 21-year-old has sonic boom speed – last month in Florida she ran 100m in 10.72 sec, the sixth quickest time in...
by admin | May 17, 2021 | Representation, SEW
If you’re an elite athlete today and don’t want to risk being accused of doping, you might want to skip your medicine. Don’t eat liver the night before a race. In fact, consider dropping meat altogether. Maybe avoid sex, too. Tests...
by admin | Apr 28, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Caster Semenya’s fight continues. In February, the South African runner filed an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, for the right to run in the Tokyo Olympics in her preferred event: the 800-m, a race in which Semenya is the two-time defending Olympic...
by admin | Apr 27, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
She laced up her boots and sped on to the skating rink. A seemingly innocuous act, except in 1952 during a time of racial segregation in the US, this young Black woman departed the rink with a broken arm, her actions having infuriated White men intent on her...
by admin | Apr 12, 2021 | Representation, SEW
When the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee told American athletes that it would allow social and racial justice demonstrations at the Olympic trials, gymnast Simone Biles thought about leotards. She said she imagined the possibilities to “make a statement,...
by admin | Apr 11, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight goes to Natalia Dorantes, who was hired by the Washington Football Team as the first Latina Chief of Staff in the NFL. ? This week we give a thumbs down and our lowlight of the week to Steve Waithe, a track and field coach at Northeastern,...
by admin | Apr 8, 2021 | #MeToo, SEW
A former Northeastern University track and field coach who had been fired after multiple sexual harassment complaints has been arrested and charged with stealing nude photos from six student athletes and trying to dupe them into sending more. Authorities charged Steve...
by admin | Apr 7, 2021 | Representation, SEW
With Team USA’s Olympic trials around the corner, 100-meter hurdler Dawn Harper-Nelson has enlisted the help of a new assistant coach — although not the kind you might expect.Like other coaches, the new recruit will watch closely from the...
by admin | Apr 1, 2021 | Representation, SEW, Uncategorized
The year was 1932. The country was enduring the gravest crisis in American History, the Great Depression, yet during that heartache; the Olympics would offer an escape and the world would be introduced to Babe Didrikson. Or later known as Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Read...
by admin | Mar 18, 2021 | Representation, SEW
One of the fascinating things about how some entities behave is their utter disregard for their previous actions, or their inability to realize a few clicks or a short search can call them up quickly. Case in point: Nike. Read More
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