by admin | Apr 9, 2021 | Representation, SEW
While we do not have an official start date for the new WNBA season, it is around the corner. The league is celebrating its 25th anniversary this season, and it unveiled new jerseys to commemorate the occasion on Thursday. Read More
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
Just after Sabrina Ionescu turned pro as one of the most decorated college athletes in NCAA history a year ago, the bidding war was off to the races. Nike, Under Armour and Puma all wanted to sign the former Oregon Ducks star, who was the all-time leader in...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
During a meeting of women’s basketball coaches with NCAA President Mark Emmert on Wednesday, Georgia Tech Coach Nell Fortner issued a plea. Instead of treating her sport like a cost to minimize, the NCAA should see it the way so many others increasingly do: as an...
by admin | Apr 2, 2021 | Representation, SEW
There is a circular poetry to this NCAA women’s basketball tournament. It is beautiful and sad, a clash between the game’s evolution and the NCAA’s stagnant leadership in prompting gender equality. It is also instructive, how the sport keeps spinning its history...
by admin | Mar 31, 2021 | Representation, SEW
The world got its first extended look at Charli Collier this month during the NCAA Women’s Tournament, but WNBA teams have had eyes on her for a while now. Collier, a 22-year-old junior who will graduate this spring and enter the WNBA draft, saw her tourney run...
by admin | Mar 25, 2021 | Pay Equity, SEW
It’s been 10 years since Atlanta Dream point guard Renee Montgomery was selected fourth overall in the 2009 WNBA draft, but she’s still facing down the harsh reality that she earns far less money than her male counterparts. So she tries not to focus on the pay...
by admin | Mar 21, 2021 | SEW, Weekly Highlights and Lowlights
? This week our highlight goes to the sports power couple, Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe. The WNBA legend and soccer super star both worked as greeters this week at a mass vaccination site in Seattle. There presence was an extra gift for all who attended. ? This week we...
by admin | Mar 18, 2021 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Basketball star Sue Bird and USWNT soccer star Megan Rapinoe greeted guests as they lined up to receive their Covid vaccines at a mass vaccination site in Seattle. Read More
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 1, 2021 | Leadership, SEW
The Liberty’s Betnijah Laney and Erica Wheeler of the Los Angeles Sparks are coming into their own after winding paths with a key intersection: Stringer’s coaching at Rutgers. Read More
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