Sentences with phrase «for women in the sport»

Instead, she responded defiantly to the federation's announcement, issuing a not - so - subtle reminder that she is a world - class athlete and a champion for women in sports.

Does the success of Arsenal's Ladies Football Festival prove that there is a future for women in the sport?

The initiative will be supported for the next three years by the Foundation for Global Sports Development (GSD), which has provided the ITF with a grant of $ 375,000 to fund workshops, education courses and professional development for women in sport.»

2015 was a great year for women in sports.

So it's good news then that the developers raised the bar for women in sports and video games in general.

The Guerreiras Project received a seed grant through WJP's World Justice Challenge to begin training 25 of Brazil's top women soccer players as «ambassadors» to address gender discrimination and accessibility for women in sports.

Not exact matches

That's a harder mission for brands, but Keeley says Getty Images seemed to pull it off during International Women's Day 2017, when it announced that it was launching a female - focused sports photography internship with the goal of adding more diversity to the field and contributing «to a more positive portrayal of sportswomen in the media.»

A fourth round is now being planned that specifically matches people looking for mentors, working parents interested in sharing tips, those in search of a wingman (or woman) for events, or sports fan hoping to connect with fellow enthusiasts.

Earlier this month, Nike suspended its sponsorship of Sharapova, the highest - paid woman in sports, after she said she had failed a drug test at the Australian Open due to a substance she was taking for health issues.

But Wambach is also making a point that other women have echoed, in a year of major achievements for women in leadership positions in professional sports: Eventually, they hope it will no longer be a big story when a female athlete, or a woman working in some other capacity in sports, reaches new heights.

While many viewers complain about NBC's tape - delay tradition, the network maintains that the practice is better for ratings as NBC claims female viewers (who actually make up the bulk of the Olympics» audience) watch sports differently than men do, with women investing more in coverage showing athletes» journeys to the games than in the actual results.

Alevtyna (Alya) Titarenko was just 17 years old when she won the 1995 title of world champion in sport acrobatics for the Ukraine as half of a women's pairs team.

Thweatt, who is sponsored by Saucony, is optimistic that the growing base of the sport can help fuel more sponsorships for elite women in the future.

In January, women were permitted to watch live sports fixtures in stadiums for the fist timIn January, women were permitted to watch live sports fixtures in stadiums for the fist timin stadiums for the fist time.

She answers reader - submitted running questions (for example: «How to Bounce Back from a Bad Race like a Badass»), shares her thoughts via journal entries and poems, and is a vocal advocate for clean competition, supporting women in sport, and maternal health around the world.

VICTORIA — New Democrat Leader John Horgan and local government and sport spokesperson Selina Robinson released the following statement on Canada's Women's Rugby team securing a place in the Rugby World Cup Final: «Congratulations to Canada's Women's Rugby team for...

The International Olympics Committee negotiated with Saudi Arabia for months before finally convincing the country, which systematically excludes women from not just sports but social or outdoor activities in general, to allow these two athletes to go to London.

But there is no industry I can think of — no sport, no science, no game, no writing, no legal system, no athletic ability, no engineering, no drug discovery, no awards for scientific achievement, no Fortune 50 companies (companies that actually make something in addition to money), no adventurism, no culinary art, no nothing in which a woman sits above all men in her field.

«As I read it, the message of the Christian Men's Movement is this: Following Jesus is not for women only, nor is it merely a spectator sport, which it tends to become for men in our domesticated, mostly female congregations.

I was able to invest in those wonderful young women in a unique way that I am truly grateful for: I picked them up from school, had them over for sleepovers, threw their birthday parties and attended their sporting events.

The 100 women were selected in 10 categories, including board and management, social enterprise and not - for - profit, business enterprise, public policy, innovation, young leader, global, local / regional, diversity, and a new category, arts, sports and culture.

Playing in the third annual Virginia Slims Championships, she upset King in the semifinals 6 - 2, 4 - 6, 6 - 3, upset Chris Evert in the final 6 - 3, 6 - 4 and walked off with a check for $ 32,000, equal to the juiciest cash prize in the history of women's sports.

In 1937 she began covering golf and writing a «Women in Sports» column for the Times, where she worked — often as the only woman in the sports department — for 35 yearIn 1937 she began covering golf and writing a «Women in Sports» column for the Times, where she worked — often as the only woman in the sports department — for 35 yearin Sports» column for the Times, where she worked — often as the only woman in the sports department — for 35 Sports» column for the Times, where she worked — often as the only woman in the sports department — for 35 yearin the sports department — for 35 sports department — for 35 years.

I also referred to there being «a physical issue» for women in Formula 1, something which has created considerable debate over the last few days — including from many prominent women within our sport.

Muriel Grossfeld, who succeeded Edwards for the 1968 and»72 Olympics (when it was felt by many women in the sport that a female coach should lead the women's team), says, «He is one of the better coaches in the country — among the four or five I would call the best.»

In her considerable spare time she went to work on her credentials: She enrolled at UCLA as a political science major; she founded the Women's Sports Foundation with King and served as its president for seven years; she worked on various Olympic committees; she lobbied for, and helped frame, the Amateur Athletic Act of 1974; and she got involved in the Special OlympicIn her considerable spare time she went to work on her credentials: She enrolled at UCLA as a political science major; she founded the Women's Sports Foundation with King and served as its president for seven years; she worked on various Olympic committees; she lobbied for, and helped frame, the Amateur Athletic Act of 1974; and she got involved in the Special Olympicin the Special Olympics.

«Progress of women in sports is slow for the same reason that it's so slow in the business world,» says a male sports executive who asked not to be identified.

Botswana will send no women, for people in that African nation struggle simply to eat and stay healthy, and in Setswana culture playing sports is mostly a male prerogative.

But her motionless pose will contrast starkly with what sports have become for women in much of the rest of the world, where unfettered female movement constitutes a social movement in the same larger, transformative sense that the Olympics themselves claim to be.

Sports for women stopped completely with the fundamentalist revolution in 1979.

It's impossible to predict every little breakthrough (a hundred years ago, we'd never have envisioned painless dentistry, the designated hitter or Thighmaster), but we're expert enough (in sports, not so much medicine) to forecast that Vince McMahon's WWF will become the umbrella organization that regulates all major league sports (except for boxing, which will continue to be guided by good sense alone), and outcomes will be scripted to provide total fan satisfaction (read: fireworks, near - naked women on every sideline, no 8 - 8 playoff teams ever and especially no Yankees championships).

As maladies of plenty such as obesity, diabetes and heart disease afflict the developed world, and elite pro sports reek of excess, SDP is a sobering counterpoint, spreading health messages, pacifying communities in conflict, preparing refugees for resettlement and providing what experts consider the simplest means of promoting development: improved status for women.

Sky Sports presenter Kate Abdo has been handed the role of studio host for Fox Sports ahead of the Woman's World Cup this summer in what is another elevation in her career, according to a press release from the network.

The Sports Illustrated Swim and Active line is curated for the everyday woman with designs that range from overtly feminine to beach chic, and everything in between.

In 2005 one of them, Gian Franco Kasper, said he didn't think women should compete because the sport «seems not to be appropriate for ladies from a medical point of view.»

The first woman to win a gold medal in wrestling for the United States hopes that her perfect trip to Rio de Janeiro changes the landscape of the sport without the need to make a transition to mixed martial arts (MMA) to show how effective it can be.

The football landscape is certainly changing, and will continue to change as long as women continue to show an interest in the sport — which can only be good news for those who aspire to play football professionally for women's teams in the future.

Neither could most of those assembled in Carmel, Ind., for the premier championship in women's golf — certainly not the sports psychologists, who left town with their coat collars pulled up over their faces.

She also won four classes in a meet sponsored by the Virginia Federation of Intercollegiate Sports for Women.

As I have recently become the Vice-Chair for women's football in Cheshire, I wanted to gain an all - round view of sport as a whole around MMU Cheshire.

It is extremely important for us in staging one of the world's great sporting events that women can become members at all of our host clubs.

I can not imagine that half of that number is necessarily women so in a very niche sport she is the nichiest and I < 3 her for staying true to herself and achieving the level of success that she has.

Scan the list of abuses that beset college sports, and your football team can claim, going back to 1980, at least one entry in virtually every category: improper benefits; recruiting violations; boosters run amok; academic cheating; use of steroids and recreational drugs; suppressed or ignored positive tests for drugs; player run - ins with other students as well as with campus and off - campus police; the discharge of weapons and the degradation of women in the football dorm; credit - card fraud and telephone credit - card fraud.

Hockey is the least commercial of the four major sports in the United States, so Yandle has a strong appreciation for the women and men who work in the wrestling industry.

Coed University, Purdue in Lafayette, Ind., is the only U.S. institution which has a vast recreational building devoted exclusively to voluntary free - time play and intramural sports for both men and women.

They stand for the kind of progress that says women from Saudi Arabia can compete in sports, progress that proves a double amputee can make an Olympic final, and progress that illustrates that more openly gay athletes are competing and winning medals than ever before.

Against this setting of sports, spectators met the newest in cars and boats, the latest in men's wear for sailing and the latest in swim wear for women, worn by an eye - filling cast of models introduced by Jinx.

Only with the passage in 1972 of Title IX, which mandated roughly equal access to college athletic programs for both men and women, were American women finally allowed to fully express their physicality through sport.

«For us, this is an amazing opportunity as we get first - hand experience at planning an event in a sporting environment with one of the UK's best women's football teams.»

Under Title IX, to achieve gender parity between men's and women's sports, universities and colleges have to meet one of three different requirements: 1) equity in participation opportunities for both men and women; 2) scholarships offered proportionally based on the number of male and female athletes; and 3) comparable overall treatment of women's and men's sports (including but not limited to quality and maintenance of locker rooms and facilities, equipment and supplies, access to practice fields, publicity of teams and events, the quality of coaching, academic tutoring, traveling budgets, etc.).