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March 8, 2024
WNBA Draft Tickets Sell Out In 15 Minutes
While the Aces are busy selling out season tickets, the WNBA draft is touting a sellout of its own. The 2024 WNBA draft, which will likely see Caitlin Clark go No. 1 overall to Indiana after the Iowa senior announced she would forgo her final year of collegiate eligibility, will...
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March 7, 2024
Sailor Cole Brauer makes history as the first American woman to race solo around the world
Aboard her 40-foot racing boat First Light, 29-year-old Cole Brauer just became the first American woman to race nonstop around the world by herself. The New York native pulled into A Coruña, Spain, on Thursday after a treacherous 30,000-mile journey that took 130 days. She thanked a cheering crowd of family and fans who had been waiting for her on shore....
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March 5, 2024
BMW Prizes & Forever Final Finishers: All-Women’s Triathlon is the Past and Future
After a meteoric rise and abrupt fall, women's-only triathlons are making a comeback—we take a look back at its past and analyze why they're the sport's future. Triathlete
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March 4, 2024
Iowa’s Caitlin Clark breaks ‘Pistol’ Pete Maravich’s NCAA Division I scoring record
Two weeks after she broke the record for women, Caitlin Clark has become NCAA Division I basketball’s overall top scorer, period. The Iowa Hawkeyes star went into Sunday’s game against the Ohio State Buckeyes needing 18 points to break “Pistol Pete” Maravich’s record of 3,667 career points, which stood for more than 50...
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February 28, 2024
American Women Are Driving The Boom In Sub-Ultra Trail Running
The current group of elite U.S. women trail runners focusing on shorter-distance mountain races is the strongest it's ever been. This year, they are looking to make an even bigger splash on the world stage. “Women are the dominant force driving growth in the U.S,” says race commentator Corrine Malcolm....
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February 23, 2024
2024 Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament Sold Out For First Time in History
For the first time in conference history, the Big Ten Women's Basketball Tournament is sold out. The league made the announcement on Friday. This year's event is scheduled for Wednesday, March 6 through Sunday, March 10 at Target Center in Minneapolis, Minn. SI
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February 15, 2024
Women Prove to Be a Powerful Force in Super Bowl’s Record Viewership
Women were a dominant story in final Super Bowl LVIII viewership figures. Data from measurement agency Nielsen showed the final audience for Super Bowl LVIII reached an average of 123.7 million, up slightly from fast national estimates of 123.4 million and reconfirming the game’s status as the largest single event in the history...
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February 6, 2024
Saudi Arabia to host the 2024 AFC Women’s Championship
Saudi Arabia will host the 2024 West Asian Football Federation (WAFF) Women's Championship this month - the first official 11-a-side women's tournament to be held in the Kingdom. A milestone for women's football in Saudi Arabia, the WAFF Women's Championship 2024 will be held in the coastal city of Jeddah...
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February 3, 2024
Fiona O’Keeffe sets record, wins Olympic trials in her marathon debut
O'Keeffe turned in a stunning and blistering performance at the U.S. Olympic marathon trials in Orlando, crossing the finish line in 2:22:10 to not only win her marathon debut but break the event record. She finished nearly 32 seconds ahead of runner-up Emily Sisson, effectively pulverizing a deep and talented...
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January 25, 2024
US women’s professional volleyball void is filled, and possibly overflowing, with 3 upstart leagues
More than 90,000 fans showed up for an outdoor volleyball match in Nebraska's football stadium last summer, and the NCAA semifinal and championship matches set attendance and television viewership records. Opening night was everything PVF officials could have wanted. A crowd of 11,624 turned out at the CHI Health Center,...
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January 23, 2024
‘The Match’ Will Include Female Golfers For The First Time
“Capital One’s The Match”, the popular exhibition featuring professional golfers and other athletes, will include female competitors for the first time. The competition will be held on Feb. 26 at The Park in West Palm Beach, Florida, and broadcast on TNT Sports. The 12-hole event will give proceeds to First...
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January 15, 2024
Australia’s Donna Urquhart runs record-breaking 1300km ultramarathon in Antarctica
Endurance runner and pain scientist Donna Urquhart has broken the world record for the longest run in a polar region after completing a 1300 km ultramarathon across Antarctica. Urquhart said she set out to claim the record in some of the harshest and coldest conditions on earth to not only...
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December 20, 2023
Formula 1 embraces gender equality with female drivers in F1 Academy
The pinnacle of motorsport, F1, has long been considered a male-dominated sport. However, in recent years, there has been a growing movement to increase female participation. The F1 Academy was created with the idea of providing a pathway for women to compete in a F1 race for the first time...
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December 20, 2023
Three women’s sports stories that helped shape 2023
2023 saw many records shattered in women’s sports, including a women’s NCAA volleyball game with over 25,000 more fans than attended the 2023 Super Bowl between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles. Between Coco Gauff's record-breaking viewership at the US Open, global headlines made by the FIFA Women’s World Cup, and...
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December 1, 2023
Japan’s Miho Nakata Sets Women’s 24-Hour World Record
Japan’s Miho Nakata jumped into the spotlight in the ultrarunning world on Saturday, December 2, setting the women’s 24-hour world record of 167.996 miles (270.363 kilometers) at the 2023 IAU 24-Hour World Championships in Taipei. She beat the previous record set by Camille Herron of 167.842 miles (270.116k) at the...
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November 15, 2023
LPGA to award $4 million to season finale winner next year under extension with CME Group
Already offering the single-largest payday in women’s golf, the LPGA said Wednesday that next year’s winner of the season-ending CME Group Tour Championship will receive $4 million, equal to the PGA Tour’s new signature events. The big increase — double what the winner gets this year — comes from a...
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October 31, 2023
Women’s College Volleyball Notches Most-Watched Game Ever
On Sunday, Fox put two matchups in NFL-adjacent slots: Those receiving 1 p.m. ET Fox NFL games would get the Wisconsin-Minnesota match in the late window, while those receiving the 4 p.m. ET game — Cleveland Browns at Seattle Seahawks — would get Ohio State-Michigan in the early window. The...
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October 25, 2023
2024 Tour de France, Tour de France Femmes routes unveiled with historic firsts
The routes for the 2024 Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes were unveiled Wednesday with historic firsts for both cycling races. Due to the Paris Olympics starting July 26, the men’s Tour starts one week earlier than usual (in Florence, Italy this year) and ends in Nice, as...
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October 20, 2023
Las Vegas Aces Clincher Produces Most-Watched WNBA Finals Game 4
Just like the champion Las Vegas Aces, the 2023 WNBA Finals finished strong with record viewership. Wednesday night’s Game 4 reportedly averaged 889,000 viewers for ESPN — the most-watched game of this year’s championship series and the most-watched WNBA Finals Game 4 of all time. The average represents a huge...
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October 17, 2023
Through Three Games, WNBA Finals Sets 20-Year Viewership High
The New York Liberty and WNBA Finals viewership both rebounded in Game 3. Sunday’s 87-73 win for New York over the Las Vegas Aces averaged 659,000 viewers — making it the most-watched Finals Game 3 in 18 years and a 14% increase over 2022’s comparable contest. The contest peaked with 945,000 viewers...
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October 10, 2023
WNBA Finals Posts Best Game 1 Viewership Since 2000
Despite stiff competition from the NFL on Sunday, the WNBA Finals managed to get off to its best viewership start in 23 years. The Las Vegas Aces’ 99-82 victory over the New York Liberty in Game 1 was seen by 729,000 average viewers on ABC — the most for an opening game...
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October 4, 2023
The Women’s Surf Film Festival Is Coming to California for the 1st Time
The Women’s Surf Film Festival, which highlights stories about women and most often told by women with a strong devotion to the ocean. will finally make its California debut in October 11-13, 2023 in Venice and Ventura. The Inertia
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October 3, 2023
90-year-old woman sets U.S. half-marathon age-group record
Just months after blazing to a new world age-group standard in the 1,500m, 90-year-old Dot Sowerby has broken the U.S. half-marathon age-group record, underscoring her message that age isn’t an obstacle to breaking down barriers. The grandmother and longtime runner from Greensboro, N.C., completed the 2023 Life Time Chicago Half...
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September 20, 2023
espnW Announces Full Agenda and Speakers for the 14th Annual espnW: Women + Sports Summit, presented by Toyota
espnW has announced the full agenda for the 2023 espnW: Women + Sports Summit, presented by Toyota, taking place October 23-25 at Ojai Valley Inn, Ojai, CA. Leaders across sports, business and entertainment will unite for a range of keynotes, breakout sessions, panels, and presentations, focusing on creating positive change...
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September 13, 2023
Coco Gauff’s US Open victory draws record 3.4M viewers, 1.1M more than Novak Djokovic’s win
Gauff's first Grand Slam title at the US Open last weekend powered ESPN to record-breaking viewership numbers. On Saturday, 3.4 million people watched Gauff defeat current world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka in three sets, a 92% increase over the 2022 final between Iga Swiatek and Ons Jabeur, making it the most-viewed women's...
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