Press Release Archive for dates of Wednesday, March 23, 2022 thru Tuesday, April 5, 2022
- With nothing but her small boat for company, British lawyer Victoria Evans battled high winds, big waves and sleep deprivation to record the fastest female solo row across the Atlantic Ocean. After setting off from Tenerife, Spain,...
- Sunday night’s national championship between UConn and South Carolina drew 4.85 million viewers, peaking at 5.91 million, ESPN announced. That’s 18% more than last year, and 30% more than 2019 — making it the...
- The NCAA tournament championship game between UConn and South Carolina was the most watched women’s final since 2004 — and many of those viewers likely had some skin in the game. The Gamecocks’ 64-49 victory over...
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/SPORTSWIRE WOMEN/ – “The Bounce: Sports Talk With a Spin” is a new podcast hosted by award-winning filmmaker Jill Yesko that takes aim at women and girls who are athletes, weekend warriors or fans, and...
- When you’re working out, you may be neglecting one group of muscles that can be key to your performance: those that help you breathe. New research presented at the American Physiological Society annual meeting...
- William Murray Golf, the leading golf apparel line inspired by Bill Murray and his brothers, today unveiled its first-ever women’s apparel collection. Featuring everyday styles designed for the modern woman, the collection integrates William...
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Emeryville, Calif, April 5, 2022/SPORTSWIRE WOMEN/ – Title Nine, the adventure and outdoor apparel retailer that encourages women to lead, risk and own, is proud to announce the winners of its first-annual Pitchfest Girls. Pitchfest...
- MONTREAL (April 4, 2022)/SPORTSWIRE WOMEN/ – Indyeva, an outdoor clothing company for women with a focus on thoughtful, sustainable design and manufacturing, is set to release its Spring/Summer 2022 (SS22) apparel collection which features sustainably-made,...
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Richmond, Calif. (April 4, 2022) /SPORTSWIRE WOMEN/ – Mountain Hardwear, leaders in performance equipment and apparel for climbers, mountaineers and outdoor athletes, is proud to announce its partnership with the Montana Women’s Climbing Festival...
- After giving birth, postpartum exercise is something that should be navigated consciously and safely. Apple Fitness Plus is stepping in with a new workout program tailored to this period, called ‘Get Back to Fitness After...
- The NCAA has traditionally hosted the men’s and women’s Final Fours in different cities, but that setup has been called into question because of gender equity issues. In 2013, Big East commissioner Val Ackerman...
- Golfers will compete for a $5 million purse when the L.P.G.A.’s first major of the season begins on Thursday. But women continue to lag far behind men. NY Times (paywall)
- Amateur players can now make money from endorsements, and some female athletes stand to make more than the men. Thanks to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year, college players can now benefit from sponsorship...
- Bueckers, the 2021 national player of the year, will be the first student-athlete brand ambassador for the education platform Chegg. Bueckers and Chegg.org, the nonprofit branch of Chegg, have partnered with hunger relief company...
- Where once athletic women and yoga apparel stood as the main page mainstay on Lululemon’s site, now featured are a pair of tennis players, serving, volleying, modeling – but mostly taunting the competition. The...
- As the Final Four descends on Minneapolis with some of the biggest names in the game competing for the national title, women’s basketball continues to be the surprise winner in the first year of...
- Owners, players, coaches, and representatives from the Washington Mystics, Washington Spirit, DC Divas, and the DC Shadow came together for a press conference to go more in-depth on the creation of the Washington Coalition...
- USA Gymnastics is overhauling its leadership structure in its women’s elite program. Instead of having one person serve as the program’s high-performance director, USA Gymnastics is dividing the job into three “equitable” positions, each...
- The reigning Player of the Year Paige Bueckers carried UConn to its record-extending 14th straight Final Four. She scored 15 of her game-high 27 points in the extra periods in UConn’s 91-87 double-OT win over...
- Today, the impact of physical inactivity on our mental state has been revealed for the first time in the Mind Racei – an ASICS experiment in which regular exercisers paused their normal fitness routines...
- Salt Lake City, UT (March 29, 2022) /SPORTSWIRE WOMEN/ – Gnarly Nutrition is thrilled to announce its partnership with Women’s Epic Race, the first trail race in Utah created specifically for all levels of...
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NEW YORK (March 29, 2022) /SPORTSWIRE WOMEN/ – In a bold step to create lasting and meaningful change in women’s sports, Group 1001 will become a majority stakeholder in Parity, a startup created for...
- Lusia Harris’ legacy added another chapter when the documentary celebrating her historic story won an Oscar. “The Queen of Basketball” won the Academy Award for short subject documentary at the Academy Awards ceremony in...
- A growing number of women of color are promoting surfing as a recreational and professional sport for Black women and girls. Others include SurfearNEGRA, Textured Waves and Brown Girls Surf. According to an article in Surfer Today, 23...
- In the wake of the outrage sparked by Prince’s video, the 2021 women’s championship game, a thrilling win by Stanford over Arizona, outdrew the average N.B.A. playoff game last season. This year, TV ratings rose...
- Investment and a newsletter list that now tops 400,000 subscribers means a series of newsletters are ahead, along with podcasts and other expansion efforts. Yet The GIST turned to veteran women’s sportswriter Pardeep Cattry...
- Former WNBA player and current coach and broadcast analyst Lisa Leslie has joined multiverse blockchain gaming platform LootMogul as a brand ambassador and business partner. Her level of investment in the company was not...
- KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 24, 2022 — As part of its previously announced “A Fair Shot” program, H&R Block today announced a roster of top female college athletes the company is partnering with to...
- Alzheimer’s and other dementias affect more than 740,000 Canadians, and unfortunately, science has not yet found a cure for the debilitating disease. The absence of an effective treatment puts even greater emphasis on the...
- U.S. consular officials were able to visit with WNBA star Brittney Griner in Russia for the first time Wednesday and reported that she was in “good condition,” a State Department spokesman told CNN. Griner...
- Stella McCartney has designed her first collection for a women’s football team in a new collaboration for Arsenal Women’s Football Club. The apparel range, launched in partnership with Adidas, includes jerseys, hoodies and tights,...
- Adidas announced Wednesday a new “name, image and likeness” network that will be open to student-athletes at NCAA Division 1 Adidas-sponsored schools. The new program will allow more than 50,000 students across 23 sports...
- The women’s tournament on ESPN, ESPN2, ABC, ESPNU and ESPNews is up 15% overall through the first two rounds. The second round averaged 474,000 viewers, a 25% jump from last year. The game Monday...
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