EVENT NEWS

August 31, 2022

Serena Williams’ U.S. Open Match Averages 2.7M Viewers

Serena Williams’ farewell tour during the U.S. Open is generating big TV ratings for ESPN. The Worldwide Leader’s coverage of Williams’ straight-sets victory over Danka Kovinic on Monday night averaged 2.7 million viewers — nearly four times the viewership ESPN earned in the comparable primetime window in 2021. FOS

August 29, 2022

Leah Kirchmann announces retirement following road world championships

After a 12-year career,  the Canadian rider will make her last appearance in Team DSM colors at the Simac Ladies Tour this week before competing at the world championships in Australia next month. VeloNews

August 29, 2022

Mountain biker Haley Batten reaches World Championship podium twice in Les Gets

Haley Batten was aiming for a world championship podium finish this week in Les Gets, France. She captured two. Four days after helping the U.S. to a third-place finish in the cross-country team relay at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships, Batten finished third Sunday in the elite women’s cross-country...

August 26, 2022

The NCAA Plans to Fund and Host a Women’s NIT

The NCAA’s Division I women’s basketball committee is planning to host a tournament similar to the men’s National Invitational Tournament (NIT) — a secondary event to March Madness, according to minutes of an August NCAA meeting that Front Office Sports reviewed. The minutes confirm an Athlon Sports/D1 Ticker report. FOS

August 24, 2022

Leah Reid prepares to take on her 100th Rock ‘n’ Roll Series Event at St. Jude Rock ‘n’ Roll Running Series Washington on September 3-4, 2022

BELLEVUE, Wash. (August 24, 2022)/ENDURANCE SPORTSWIRE/ – Thousands of runners are scheduled to participate in the St. Jude Rock ‘n’ Roll® Running Series Washington on Saturday and Sunday, September 3-4, 2022 as the Rock ‘n’ Roll Running Series makes its return to the Pacific Northwest. For one runner in particular, the...

August 23, 2022

San Diego Wave to break NWSL single-game attendance record, Alex Morgan reveals

The San Diego Wave has sold in excess of 27,000 tickets for its Sept. 17 match against Angel City FC, enough to break the National Women's Soccer League's all-time attendance record for a standalone game. The Wave and U.S. international forward Alex Morgan revealed the attendance numbers in an exclusive...

August 22, 2022

Tickets to see Serena Williams in her last U.S. Open are selling fast

Tickets for the opening night and the two following nights virtually sold old, and resale prices are surging, The tennis superstar, a seven-time Wimbledon champion, announced earlier this month her intention to retire at age 41 after losing in the first round of the tournament this year to Harmony Tan, the...

August 22, 2022

A New All-Women’s Ski Contest Is Coming this Winter

To kick off the next winter season, pro skiers Lexi duPont and Hedvig Wessel, alongside snowboarders Fanny Avril and Leanne Pelosi, are launching a new women’s-only ski event: Sister Summit. DuPont’s time digging at Redbull Formation, a progression session in southern Utah for female freeride mountain bikers, inspired the new...

August 17, 2022

Madaleine Sorkin becomes the first woman to free climb Dunn-Westbay Direct (5.14-)

On August 10, Madaleine Sorkin, 40, enjoyed a no-falls day on the Dunn-Westbay Direct (IV 5.14-, 4 pitches, 1,000') on the Diamond of Longs Peak (Neniisotoyou'u, 14,255') in Rocky Mountain National Park. This makes her the first woman and fifth person overall to free climb the route on lead. The crux...

August 17, 2022

WNBA posts its highest viewership on ESPN in 16 years

The 2022 WNBA season finished as the league’s most-watched regular season on ESPN in 16 years, and its most-watched season overall in 14 years. The WNBA averaged 372,000 viewers across 25 WNBA games on ESPN networks, a 19 percent increase over last season and the highest average viewership since 2008....

August 16, 2022

The NCL Launches First-Of-Its-Kind Professional Cycling League with Venture and Celebrity Investors and A 2023 Race Series

MIAMI, FL /SPORTSWIRE WOMEN/ - Today, the NCL (National Cycling League, Inc.) announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind professional cycling league. With 60 million riders in the United States and over 2 billion worldwide, American professional cycling is positioned to become one of the most popular sports in the world...

August 11, 2022

After 16-year hiatus, women’s championship tour returns to Teahupo’o

For the first time in 16 years, the best female surfers are set to compete at Teahupo’o. Women previously competed at Teahupo’o, the infamous reef break in Tahiti whose name roughly translates to “wall of skulls,” but after 2006, surfing’s international federation stopped holding women’s contests at Teahupo’o, citing safety...

August 9, 2022

Serena Williams Says Farewell to Tennis On Her Own Terms—And In Her Own Words

I have never liked the word retirement. It doesn’t feel like a modern word to me. I’ve been thinking of this as a transition, but I want to be sensitive about how I use that word, which means something very specific and important to a community of people. Maybe the best word...

August 8, 2022

Sue Bird’s Final Regular-Season Home Game Sets Attendance Records

WNBA legend Sue Bird took the hardwood for her final regular-season home game on Sunday evening — to a historic crowd. About 18,100 fans packed into Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle to celebrate Bird’s illustrious career, the team announced. FOS

August 8, 2022

Morro Bay, California Welcomes East Coast Fitness Celebrity For A First-Of-Its-Kind Event At The Iconic Morro Rock

Morro Bay, CA /SPORTSWIREWOMEN/ - The Morro Bay Chamber of Commerce is excited to announce that as part of their brand-new reimagined and rebranded 2022 Avocado Margarita Food and Drink Festival, Friday, Sept. 9 - Sunday, Sept 11, the event will feature satellite stage events at the iconic Morro Rock...

August 7, 2022

Surfing the biggest growth sport among women in Australia

Surfing was one of the fastest-growing activities during the pandemic, alongside basketball and soccer, with 196,000 people aged 15 or older picking it up in 2020 or last year, according to the latest data from the Australian Sports Commission. AFR

August 3, 2022

Tour De France Femmes Proves TV Hit As Viewing Figures Released

The eight stages captured, on average, a quarter of the French television audience, a total of 2.25 million viewers across the channels France 2 and France 3 and a total of 20 million people watching across the entire race. The peak was 5.1 million viewers, a 45.6% audience share, for...

August 3, 2022

Elevate Women 4-Tri Malibu Triathlon Women’s Only Training Program

/SPORTSWIRE WOMEN/ – 2XU Malibu Triathlon is excited to announce the Elevate Women 4Tri 7-week triathlon training program will kick off the week off August 8th and lead right into race weekend September 17-18, 2022. The women’s only training program is designed to encourage participation for women learning the sport...

August 1, 2022

England Lionesses Women’s Euro Victory Leads to Record 17.6 Million Viewership for BBC

The England Lionesses’ historic win in the Women’s Euro 2022 soccer championship has proved to be a viewership bonanza for the BBC. England beat eight-time champions Germany at London’s Wembley stadium in the final on Sunday evening, with Ella Toone and Chloe Kelly scoring for the victors. The game was played in front of a...

August 1, 2022

England’s Lionesses roar to victory in Euro 2022: how women’s football beat the sceptics

England’s women have won the European football championship, bringing a major international trophy home for the first time since the men’s team won the World Cup in 1966, more than a lifetime ago for many of the fans who crowded into Wembley Stadium for the match. They beat Germany, English...

July 31, 2022

Felicia Stancil Wins Elite Women’s BMX Racing World Championship

NANTES, France /SPORTSWIRE WOMEN/ –  Team USA showed up to the second day of racing at the 2022 UCI BMX Racing World Championships with 12 riders heading in to the quarterfinals. The highlight of the day came from the Elite Women’s race with Felicia Stancil (Lake Villa, Ill.; Factory SSquared/Answer) winning...

July 31, 2022

Women sweep the podium at Near Death Marathon

The three women sped to the finish line at the world-renowned Canadian Death Race (CDR) hosted by Sinister Sports, for a remarkable first all-women top-three finish for the 22nd running of the CDR event. Edmonton’s Priscilla Forgie led the pack with a blistering time of 4:06:21, followed by Jenny Quilty of...

July 27, 2022

Women’s gold-medal game set as soccer finale for 2024 Olympics

The women’s gold-medal match will serve as the finale of the Olympic soccer tournament at the Summer Games in 2024. The Paris Olympics will mark the first time the soccer competition will conclude with the women’s final instead of the men’s, FIFA revealed Wednesday when it announced the full soccer tournament...

July 27, 2022

All-female rowing team breaks world record with 2,400-mile trek from California to Hawaii

After 34 days and more than 2,400 nautical miles, four female rowers made history on Tuesday morning by wrapping up their journey from California to Hawaii in record time.  CBS Sports

July 22, 2022

Tour de France Femmes Is a Women’s Sports Triumph Long in the Making

Up against the sport’s long, male-dominated history and its masculinity-driven marquee event, the women of cycling secured the first official women’s Tour de France stage race in 33 years. SI