by admin | May 4, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Tori Bowie, the sprinter who won three Olympic medals at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, has died. She was 32. Bowie’s death was announced Wednesday by her management company and USA Track and Field. No cause of death was given. “USATF is deeply saddened by the passing...
by admin | Apr 10, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Sha’Carri Richardson won her first solo race of the 2023 track and field season in historic fashion. The 23-year-old dominated the windy 100-meter sprint at the 2023 Miramar Invitational on Saturday, finishing with a time of 10.57 seconds, which registers at a...
by admin | Mar 7, 2023 | Representation, SEW
“If males got boobs during puberty there would be a free sports bra in every locker and we wouldn’t even be having this conversation,” says Lauren Fleshman, laughing but not joking. “When teams issue uniforms a sports bra should be part of that uniform.”...
by admin | Mar 1, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Becoming a pioneer for Black American women in track and field wasn’t initially on the radar for Alice Coachman, but that’s exactly what happened in 1948 when Coachman became the first Black woman ever – from any country – to win an Olympic gold medal. This summer...
by admin | Feb 28, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, 36, is one of the fastest women in the world. The eight-time Olympic medalist and five-time 100m world champion is highly revered for her speed, world-wide success, and fun-loving personality, and she spoke in-depth with NBC...
by admin | Feb 16, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Chase Ealey went from a favorite to qualify for the Tokyo Games at the start of 2020, to after the postponement missing the Olympics in 2021 to winning a world championship in 2022. In those two and a half years, Ealey probably would have retired if not for a Scottish...
by admin | Jan 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
The University of Southern California renamed its track and field venue after alum Allyson Felix, the most decorated female Olympic track and field athlete with 11 medals, including seven gold. The former Cromwell Field is now Allyson Felix Field. Felix turned...
by admin | Dec 27, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The Olympian Allyson Felix holds the title of “most decorated female” in track and field. But above her career in sports, Felix is a wife, a mom, an activist, and most recently, a designer for Athleta after the brand tapped her as its first athletic partner. This...
by admin | Dec 27, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Lashinda Demus will now get a gold medal for the 400-meter hurdle race from the 2012 London Olympic Games due to Russian Olympian Natalya Antyukh being stripped of her gold medal proof of doping 10 years later. On Wednesday, Dec. 21, the Athletics Integrity Unit...
by admin | Dec 1, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Early on in her career as a hammer thrower, Janee’ Kassanavoidlearned a simple yet important lesson from her coach, Greg Watson. The equation for power, he told her, was work over time. Kassanavoid keeps this physics lesson in mind each time she competes in her chosen...
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