by admin | Dec 12, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin returned to the Alpine skiing World Cup podium with a runner-up to Swiss Wendy Holdener in a slalom in Sestriere, Italy, on Sunday. Holdener, who two weeks ago earned her first World Cup slalom victory (a tie with Swede Anna Swenn Larsson) after 30...
by admin | Dec 6, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Jessie Diggins skied into the U.S. record books once again on Friday when she won the women’s 10-kilometer freestyle in the cross-country world cup event in Lillehammer, Norway. Diggins, a three-time Olympic medalist, notched her 13th individual world cup victory to...
by admin | Dec 5, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Kaillie Humphries extended her podium streak on Saturday at the IBSF World Cup, where she and U.S. push athlete Jasmine Jones finished third in the two-woman bobsled. The third-place finish in Park City marked the sixth podium for Humphries at the Park City track,...
by admin | Dec 2, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Kaillie Humphries is off to a strong start to a four-year cycle that she hopes ends with her breaking the record as the oldest female Olympic bobsledder. Humphries, the women’s record holder with three Olympic bobsled titles, earned her first World Cup victory since...
by admin | Dec 2, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Stéphanie Frappart has been showered with praise after she became the first woman to referee a men’s World Cup match. Joined by assistant referees Neuza Back and Karen Díaz Medina, the 38-year-old took charge of Germany’s thrilling 4-2 victory against Costa Rica. Read...
by admin | Dec 2, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Jill Ellis was voted into the US Soccer Hall of Fame after coaching the American women to World Cup titles in 2015 and 2019. The 56-year-old British-born coach was picked on 20 of 24 ballots in the builder voting that included only coach candidates for the 2023 class....
by admin | Dec 1, 2022 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
USA’s World Cup win over Iran on Tuesday paid dividends for both the men’s and women’s national teams. The US men are guaranteed $13m in prize money for reaching the last 16 in Qatar. That will be shared equally between the men’s and women’s teams under the equal pay...
by admin | Nov 30, 2022 | Representation, SEW
In October Sophia Smith sat in front of the gathered media in Washington DC and calmly outlined her ambition: to become the best player in the world. It is quite a claim but then she had already had a pretty good year: She was the 2022 NWSL MVP (the youngest ever),...
by admin | Nov 28, 2022 | Representation, SEW
World champion Lara Gut-Behrami improved on her second run Saturday to win her first World Cup giant slalom in more than six years, with Mikaela Shiffrin finishing 13th. Gut-Behrami was third in the opening run on the course in Killington, Vermont, but did just enough...
by admin | Nov 21, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin became the first woman to win the first two races of the Alpine skiing World Cup season in 29 years, taking back-to-back slaloms this weekend and bouncing back from her worst string of slalom results to end last season. Shiffrin followed her 75th...
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