Human Interest
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August 24, 2023
Meet These Five Moms Competing at the World Champs
Becoming a mother used to be thought of as a sign of retirement for professional athletes, but we now know that for many, it’s just the beginning. These five moms represent some of the amazing mothers lining up at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest. Women's Running
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August 3, 2023
British mom pumps breast milk while running 100-km race—and wins
A 43-year-old mother of five came in first at the recent 100-kilometre Race to the Stones in southern England, a tough feat made all the more challenging by the fact she was pumping breast milk for her eight-month-old son while tackling the course. Canadian Running
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June 11, 2023
Sponsors lining up for Rose Zhang, the LPGA’s newest star
A few days before winning her first LPGA event, Rose Zhang partnered with Michelle Wie as both signed a sponsorship deal with Delta Airlines. That same day, Adidas announced a multi-year endorsement with Zhang too. Before turning professional, Zhang became the first collegiate athlete to sign a name, image, and likeness (NIL)...
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May 11, 2023
How Motherhood Made Me a More Successful Pro Athlete
For Chelsey Magness, motherhood helped up her game as a professional endurance athlete — here's how she balanced those lives and makes the best of both worlds. Gear Junkie
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May 10, 2023
First female Boston Marathon runner Bobbi Gibb on starting a running revolution: “We knew the world was never going to be the same”
It wasn’t until she was 21 that Gibb learned for the first time what a marathon was. Knowing how much she enjoyed running, the father of one of her high school friends suggested Gibb go and watch the Boston Marathon to see elite runners in action. And as soon as...
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May 1, 2023
Kirsten Neuschäfer Wins the Golden Globe Sailing Race, Dubbed a Voyage for Mad Men
On the evening of April 27, as the sky darkened over the Atlantic coast of France, a 36-foot sailboat drifted slowly on a windless sea. South African sailor Kirsten Neuschäfer, 40, stood alone at the helm of Minnehaha, whose once-white hull had gone dingy with algae. An entourage of rubber...
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April 19, 2023
San Diego Wave FC Is Making Waves In The NWSL And In Women’s Sports
Team president Jill Ellis reflects on the franchise's record-breaking inaugural campaign and how it intends to keep the ball rolling in 2023 and beyond. Forbes
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March 23, 2023
The Gritty-est Trail Running Group in Delaware
What started as a Facebook page for group runs and became dinners, workshops, and a community on the East Coast. In just over a year, GRIT has become a community of over 160 people, mostly moms from Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey. Women's Running
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March 17, 2023
Mom, Athlete, Western States Competitor — Dreama Walton Is One Bad Mother
Dreama Walton never thought she’d be an ultrarunner. But, as she says in the trailer for Dreama Team — the upcoming documentary about her journey — she “caught the bug.” Ultrarunning is a hell of a bug to catch. The sport places huge demands on time, relationships, and the body....
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March 16, 2023
Giant’s chairperson tells industry to reach out to women
Bonnie Tu, chairperson of Giant Group, speaking at the annual Bicycle Leadership Conference, offered a personal look at her role in developing Giant’s LIV brand of bicycles and cycling apparel scaled for women. BRAIN
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March 15, 2023
First woman to run Boston Marathon recounts how she snuck into all-men’s race in 1966
Gibb, a native of Winchester, Massachusetts, is a legend in the sport of distance running, as she is the first woman to ever run and complete the Boston Marathon. In 1966, the Boston Marathon was still an all-men's race, but Gibb applied to run in it anyway. She received a...
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March 14, 2023
Kara Goucher on Owning Her Own Story
Kara Goucher is a two-time Olympian, who competed in the 5,000m, 10,000m and marathon, and is a World Champion Silver Medalist at the 10,000m. In 2015, Goucher went public with accusations that her former coach Alberto Salazar avoided antidoping rules with elite competitors in the Nike Oregon Project. Salazar served a...
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January 9, 2023
She’s a visually-impaired marathoner, triathlete and mountain climber: Meet Runninghour’s Chris Hortin
She’s a visually-impaired marathoner, triathlete and mountain climber: Meet Runninghour’s Chris Hortin. She runs marathons, climbs mountains, swims in the sea and plays tennis despite severe vision loss. Vice chairman of Runninghour Chris Hortin tells CNA Women how she overcame her doubts and physical limitations, and took a leap of...
