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Softball added at Weatherford College
by Title IX Blog
posted June 18, 2010 at 5:30pm

A year-and-half ago, OCR launched an "inquiry" into Title IX compliance at Weatherford College in Texas, in response to gross disparity in athletic opportunities for male and female students. The inquiry produced an agreement that obligated the college ...more

Maya Moore a finalist for the 2010 Honda-Broderick Cup
by HoopFeed.com
posted June 17, 2010 at 4:35pm

University of Connecticut star Maya Moore is a finalist for the 2010 Honda-Broderick Cup. The winner will be announced at an awards ceremony on June 21st at UCLA in Los Angeles. The finalists were chosen from previously announced Honda Sports Award winn...more

Handling team conflicts
by Hoop Thoughts
posted June 16, 2010 at 6:59pm

Nice article on dealing with conflicts within your team written by Amy Gallo of the Harvard Business Review:The conflicts that often arise in teams can make you want to throw up your arms in despair, retreat to your office, and live out your career in tea...more

Like it or not, You're a role model!
by PrincessPunish
posted June 16, 2010 at 3:11pm

Signing that big contract deal means also signing on as a role model!...more

PAC What?
by C and R's Stanford Women's Basketball Blog
posted June 15, 2010 at 5:08pm

First it was going to be the PAC-16, a big super conference split in two, have a football championship like the SEC, make more revenue. Therefore the PAC-10 was wooing football powerhouses Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State. In ...more

Conference realignment mania
by They're Playing Basketball
posted June 15, 2010 at 1:07pm

The SEC wants Texas A&M;, Texas and Oklahoma, but doesn't see the latter two as a realistic possibility. Maybe that's because Big 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe is making a pitch to Texas.Nebraska has joined the Big 10.Missouri is trying hard to save the Big 1...more

East Coasters prep for NSSA Champs in California
by Dyla Magazine - Women's Action Sports Coalition
posted June 14, 2010 at 12:13pm

UCF star Amy Nicholl : photo courtesy Amy Nicholl Handful Of East Coast Teams Eye Success At Upcoming NSSA College Champs With the NSSA National Championships kicking off next week at Salt Creek, CA, all East Coast eyes are understandably on our hot yo...more

WNBA and Pac 16
by They're Playing Basketball
posted June 13, 2010 at 1:09pm

Phoenix set a single-game scoring record tonight in beating Tulsa, 116-84. The league's website doesn't even have a box score as of right now, but WNBA on twitter says Diana Taurasi and Candice Dupree each had 18 for the Mercury, while rookie and former O...more

No Offense, It's Just Business
by amber2jewel
posted June 12, 2010 at 8:41pm

Marie Hardin recently posted a WTS blog in response to Eric Deggens' column regarding a study confirming that while participation in women's sports has increased with Title IX, media coverage itself is stagnant, if not decreasing (see "Why the Apathy...more

NCAA DI Outdoor Track & Field Championships - Event-by-Event Recap
by anngaff
posted June 12, 2010 at 5:01pm

Texas A&M swept the team titles for the second year in a row. It was an exciting day of collegiate track and field, with records falling and upsets abounding. Here's an Event-by-Event Recap: Javelin Women Evelien Dekkers of Florida threw almos...more

More conference speculation
by Women's Sports Blog
posted June 12, 2010 at 4:48pm

Apropos of my last post, it's being reported that Texas will go to the Pac-10 when its board of regents votes on Tuesday. Oklahoma State has said it will go where Texas does, and invitations have possibly also been extended to OU and Texas A&M. Ba...more

NCAA DI Outdoor Track & Field Championships - Friday Recap, Saturday Schedule
by anngaff
posted June 12, 2010 at 12:36pm

I powered through my run last night after watching a very exciting, very motivating two hours of the NCAA Track & Field Championships on CBS College Sports. Decathlon All day while working and trying very hard to not start watching the live stream y...more

Conference Realignment Doesn't Only Affect Football
by Women's Sports Blog
posted June 11, 2010 at 4:57pm

Since the schools themselves seem to only be concerned about their football programs, mainstream media cannot be faulted for making that the centerpiece of coverage in the clusterbomb conference destruction that's breaking upon us. It remains unclear wh...more

Summary of penalties for women’s basketball programs from the NCAA APR report
by HoopFeed.com
posted June 11, 2010 at 11:08am

The NCAA released the latest Academic Progress Rates Wednesday. The APR monitors team academic performance. Each Division I team calculates its APR annually based on the eligibility and retention of scholarship student-athletes. Teams scoring below 925 ...more

NCAA DI Outdoor Track & Field Championships - Theisen Repeats
by anngaff
posted June 11, 2010 at 1:53am

Brianne Theisen of Oregon defended her heptathlon national championship in front of a stadium full of Duck fans and broke her PR and school record in the process. Theisen is now part of a small and elite group of women who have won back-to-back heptathlon...more

Washington's new place among expanding Pac-10?
by Jayda Evans: Womens Hoops Blog
posted June 10, 2010 at 10:21pm

We all know the Pac-10's latest moves have nothing to do with women's hoops. It's just a sit back and wait until the dust settles to see what will be. Stanford coach Tara VanDerveer said as much when I asked her about the possibility of expansion in Febru...more

No One Remembers Second...
by amber2jewel
posted June 10, 2010 at 8:00pm

Amidst the USC-Reggie Bush/O.J. Mayo scandals and the sanctions announced by the NCAA today, the Memphis-Derrick Rose scandal, Marion Jones and her steroids scandal, and yes, the fossil that is the MLB steroids scandal, I’ve been doing a l...more

Maryland, the Big 10 and 10K Goals
by Run Girl Run
posted June 10, 2010 at 12:22pm

I had a whole nice post all planned out about my goals for my 10K this weekend. I'll get to that eventually, but first I'm making a quick plea to the University of Maryland, our athletics department, whoever the heck makes conference decisions:Don't move ...more

Day 2, NCAA DI Outdoor Track & Field Championships - Iowa State goes 1-2 in the 10,000m
by anngaff
posted June 10, 2010 at 12:00pm

Rain poured down on to the track but from the faces of the women in the 10,000m field, you would have thought it was just business as usual. The entire pack of 24 athletes stayed together for much of the race, with Andrea Walkonen of Boston University lea...more

Softball World Series
by C and R's Stanford Women's Basketball Blog
posted June 9, 2010 at 8:57pm

Congratulations to UCLA for wining the Softball College World Series, beating Arizona two games to none. (We like they get to play the best two out of three, maybe basketball could adopt that!) In the last game UCLA won it 15-9 and the game featured a rec...more

I like scoring! And I'm not ashamed to admit it!
by After Atalanta
posted June 9, 2010 at 5:19pm

I wasn't as invested in the Women's College World Series this year. I turned it on when I was around. I went to one regional game. But I left the bar where I was watching game 1 of the championships on Monday night because I cared more about eating leftov...more

Oregonian Class 6A Girls Basketball Player of the Year Shoni Schimmel finally commits
by Women Undefined
posted June 9, 2010 at 5:11pm

"When she plays, its almost like she plays for the Indian people"- Lillian Moses The Oregonian reports that the only ESPN top-ranked girls basketball recruit left to commit, Oregon's own Shoni Schimmel, has finally committed to Louisville. This rem...more

UCLA defeats Arizona in WCWS
by Alan's College Softball Blog
posted June 9, 2010 at 2:59pm

The board above says it all. UCLA is this year's NCAA champion, giving Kelly Inouye-Perez her first title as head coach. Arizona added a late run, but it was nowhere near enough. UCLA needed a huge amount of luck to win Game 1, but tonight, the Bruins' ...more

The NCAA DI Outdoor Track and Field Championships Start Today!
by anngaff
posted June 9, 2010 at 2:48pm

The NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships start today and run through Saturday, June 12th, at historic Hayward Field in Tracktown USA, also known as Eugene, Oregon. For DAY 1 (Wednesday), here is your schedule of events: Womens Heptathlo...more

Competing with passion - Tiffany Maskulinski
by Byline to Finish Line
posted June 9, 2010 at 2:08pm

She mentioned it in passing, almost just as a matter of fact, when we were talking about her trip this week to the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Tiffany Maskulinski needed a year off from pole vaulting to work on some back pain i...more

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