Sentences with phrase «women in soccer»

Women in soccer also presented problematic challenges to the stereotypical woman as homebound caregiver.

Significant sponsorship has increased coverage and opportunities for women in soccer and improved legitimacy of the sport and women's abilities on and off the field.

Not exact matches

Canada women's national soccer team captain Christine Sinclair explains how to motivate a team to peak performance in tough conditions

We are primed to connect «man» and «soccer» and «women» and «makeup» due to their strong connections in our minds.

In the meantime, she'll have to settle for being the best women's soccer player in the worlIn the meantime, she'll have to settle for being the best women's soccer player in the worlin the world.

Compare this to breaking the color barrier in baseball or the emergence of women's professional sports leagues in soccer or basketball.

As the cards drop, readers meet the occupants, among them an elderly woman who remembers the street in post-Blitz ruins, a Pakistani shopkeeper and his quarrelsome brothers and a 17 - year - old soccer prodigy.

Solo, the most dominant goalkeeper in women's soccer history, has won one World Cup title and two Olympic gold medals in a U.S. career that has included 202 national team appearances and 102 clean sheets.

A yawning pay gap led the massively popular U.S. Women's soccer team to file a gender discrimination lawsuit, the pay differential between the WNBA and NBA remains stark, and women lag behind in both collegiate coaching and officiaWomen's soccer team to file a gender discrimination lawsuit, the pay differential between the WNBA and NBA remains stark, and women lag behind in both collegiate coaching and officiawomen lag behind in both collegiate coaching and officiating.

While the previous man, portrayed by Goldsmith, was seen reflecting on past experiences from the corners of a dark bar with a bevy of beautiful women on his arms, Legrand will be more of an action hero — whether it's chopping a coconut in half with his bare hand, running down a street clutching a pig or retrieving a soccer ball from inside a well.

In their official response to the Harvard soccer team scandal, the women's team wrote that sometimes it seems «the whole world is the locker room.»

I doubt that it would work with girls, or with most woman teachers, and certainly not in a culture dominated by soccer, cricket, or tennis.

To showcase once again how Heineken ® is pairing their decades of passion for soccer with the momentum the beautiful game has seen in the U.S., Heineken ® has launched the «Soccer is Here» campaign, which debuts a hat trick of renowned players as spokespeople, including International Spanish star and New York City Football Club (NYCFC) captain, David Villa, U.S. Women's National team captain and summer games hero, Carli Lloyd and American soccer legend Landon Donovan.

On Oct. 27 - 29 thousands of women soccer players will fill the fields in Placer Valley for the biggest and most competitive fall soccer event in Northern California, the Placer United Girls Cup.

THERESA HIRSCHAUER CINCINNATI Hirschauer, a senior striker, became the leading women's soccer career goalscorer for both Brown (62) and the Ivy League (29) in her four varsity seasons.She was named the conference's woman player of the year last season.

Were Uruguay ever to send women to the Olympics in a team sport, that sport ought to be soccer.

Although Lauren is not the biggest sports fan, my sister considers herself a fan of soccer and of women's sports in particular (she played field hockey in college).

The United States women are through to the quarterfinals of the London 2012 Olympics women's soccer tournament, and will only need a draw in their final match of the group stage to win their group.

(I'm not clear on why Murphy would go overseas when the best women's pro soccer is played in this country.

In Portland, women's soccer has tipped.»

Thanks to a remarkable woman, young war refugees from three continents have found a new home on a soccer team in Georgia

Mia Hamm is widely considered to be among the best — if not the best — women's soccer players of all time, but relishing in the spotlight is not her forte.

25 Female Irish soccer fans who attended their country's World Cup playoff against Iran in Tehran, the first women permitted in an Iranian stadium to watch soccer since the country's 1979 Islamic revolution.

Could there have been a better way to seal the U.S. women's soccer team's 2 - 1 victory over Germany in Monday's Olympic semifinals?

I was frankly shocked that women's soccer couldn't survive in the Boston area, a hotbed of soccer in the U.S. Especially given that the Revs are in town, too.

«To say we lost the World Cup because of the coach is ridiculous,» says Contiguglia, citing the retirement of star Michelle Akers in 2000, the rise of women's soccer in other countries and the challenge of mixing young prospects with aging veterans.

The US is laden with potential gold medalists, including front - runners in men's / women's basketball, women's tennis, women's water polo, and women's soccer.

One of the main reasons that the men's soccer team is in need of a new field is because the current one — which women's rugby will supposedly inherit — has flooded several times in the past year due to poor drainage.

My favorite example of excellence in motion is U.S. women's soccer player Carli Lloyd.

The historic side has never had a women's team and will look to compete in the second tier of English Women's sowomen's team and will look to compete in the second tier of English Women's soWomen's soccer.

Marquette women's soccer moved to 3 -1-0 in Big East action on Thursday night with a 1 - 0 victory over Xavier.

United States About Website The Equalizer was founded in 2009 with a goal of bringing first - class media coverage to women's soccer.

The previously # 19 ranked Marquette women's soccer team dropped out of the top 25 after a tough weekend in which they drew 0 - 0 to Illinois State and lost to UWM 2 - 1.

Of course, by football, I mean the sport that we call soccer here in the states, and by soccer, I specifically mean Big East women's soccer, as the 10 teams kick off conference action this weekend.

The Marquette Golden Eagles could not pull off the upset and fell 4 - 0 to the # 19 ranked Georgetown Hoyas Thursday afternoon in the Big East women's soccer semifinals.

Ryley Bugay and Eli Beard scored goals in relatively uncommon ways on Sunday as Marquette Golden Eagles women's soccer got the 2 - 0 victory over Louisville Cardinals down in Kentucky.

Carrie Madden scored twice, including a golden goal bicycle kick in overtime, to propel Marquette women's soccer to a 2 - 1 win over St. John's in the Big East tournament semifinals.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The Equatorial Guinea soccer federation appeared at sport's highest court Thursday in an effort to overturn their exclusion from the 2019 Women's World Cup in a case of a player's forged documents.

As we did with women's soccer, we take a swing through the conference as league play gets started to see what everyone has been up to so far in 2014...

Are the powers - that - be saying that the development of female soccer players in the U.S. is on the right track and no changes need to be made, even though the majority of the players on last year's Women's World Cup runner - up U. S. Women's National Team (USWMT) played on their high school teams?

By Lela Nargi With the Women's World Cup of soccer kicking off in Canada this coming June, two - time Olympic gold medalist and FC Kansas City forward Amy Rodriguez has been spending the winter getting in shape, in the hopes she'll make it on to the final roster.

Overall, reported concussions rates are more frequent among high school athletes than college athletes in some sports — including football, men's lacrosse and soccer, and baseball; higher for competition than practice (except for cheerleading); and highest in football, ice hockey, lacrosse, wrestling, soccer, and women's basketball.

The world governing body of soccer, FIFA, awarded her the FIFA Fair Play Award, the first woman and American to receive the award, for her work against child labor in the stitching of soccer balls.

Baby wearing strengthened my core muscles and gave me thighs that were stronger, even, than when I played in a women's soccer league in Vancouver.

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Aside from Camp Kesem, Moose plays for the women's club soccer team and is in Alpha Phi Omega.

Virginia Tech will focus on athletes participating in various sports, including football, women's soccer, men's soccer, and women's lacrosse.

This may have happened before, but I sure haven't seen it lately — most of the recent traffic on the Obama feed has focused on campaign events or feel - good moments like the women's soccer World Cup, not on in - your - face advocacy.

The Games will begin on Feb. 9 in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and the women's ice - hockey squad will be the first combined Korean team for the Olympics, and the first unified team since their athletes played together for an international table - tennis championship and a youth soccer tournament in 1991.

The pair have rarely appeared together even during moments of celebration such as the U.S. women's national soccer team's World Cup victory parade down the «Canyon of Heroes» in July.