Women & Girls

I was a young girl once. I was a young athlete once. At a young age I played softball just because it was the thing young, athletic girls in upstate New York did at the time. I liked it. I was [...]

As a strong advocate for how we shape girls and women in sports, it is essential for all of us to recognize and understand the importance of getting girls involved in sport, keeping women in [...]

Two things happened today and it was sad but opportune – I was working on a coach’s presentation on character development and then I was having a conversation with a friend who was assaulted by [...]

Female coaches remain exceedingly rare in pro tennis. In 2014 when Amelie Mauresmo was hired by Andy Murray, she became the only female to coach a top pro on the men’s tour. In a New York Times [...]

A few weeks ago, I read an article about the increase of women entrepreneurs sexually harassed in Silicon Valley. As I started to dig more into this, I found out that 60% of these women report [...]

Before you read the rest of this blog, I want you to start by watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tU-D-m2JY8  This is one of the WORST video’s I EVER seen!!! I wrote an [...]

Shocking! I am referring to an article in the NY Times: Men of Soccer Don’t Get It, as Usual Because I’ve been writing a lot on issues around gender inequality, I want to start this blog by [...]

Did you see my tweet yesterday – I was searching for NCAA stats and the top thing that came up in google search was the following: “Swimming has been a sport at every modern Summer [...]

Sports has so many positive impacts on a girls life. Sports helps develop movement, emotions, socialization, intelligence, coping skills and the list goes on. I am particularly interested in [...]

My dissertation was on transitions women triathletes go through to train and compete for their sport. One of the main themes of my dissertation is that women struggle to balance training, [...]