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Where We Find Meaning as Athletes
by BAWSI Miyoko
posted March 14, 2012 at 2:40pm

  Earning my first podium position at an international figure skating competition is one of my favorite figure skating memories. We were in Slovenia, proudly wearing our Canadian Junior National Figure Skating Team jackets, and everything came toget...more

Athletes Giving Back!
by BAWSI Drea
posted March 12, 2012 at 11:58pm

Santa Clara University Cross Country athletes give back to their community by teaching adaptive sports to children with disabilities....more

Culture vultures and violent male athletes
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted March 11, 2012 at 12:42pm

Sexual assault charges against two members of Boston University’s wildly successful ice hockey team have prompted the usual media hand-wringing on the meaning of it all in a societal context. So naturally, we must have a quote like this one in The ...more

2012 Kazmaier Talk, Pre-Conference Tournament Edition
by The First Line
posted February 18, 2012 at 10:47pm

Things one should not try to do at the same time: A. finish a dissertation, B. look for a job, and C. write a blog about an in-season sport.  We’re already at the last weekend of the regular season!  This means normally Kazmaier selection ...more

3 Pieces Of Advice for Female Athletes Once Their Playing Days Are Over
by Coach Dawn Writes
posted February 15, 2012 at 6:07pm

source Our female student-athletes hear lots of doom and gloom stories about what their professional careers will look like after graduation.  Whether it’s the glass ceiling or balancing career and family, they are understandably nervous as th...more

Elena Delle Donne Lives On
by After Atalanta
posted February 8, 2012 at 9:50pm

Well obviously. In case you stopped caring about the former #1 high school recruit was doing after she abruptly and amid great controversy left UConn several years ago without ever playing a game for the Huskies--here's an update. She's doing fine. Perha...more

The Weekend Ahead in Track & Field : Colleges
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted February 3, 2012 at 9:46pm

The collegiate action will be hot & heavy this weekend. New Balance Collegiate Invitational The New Balance Collegiate Invitational will be on Friday and Saturday at Manhattan’s Armory Track & Field Center. 200 teams, 26 states, five coun...more

National Girls and Women in Sports Day- February 1, 2012 - Go out and support women's sport!
by Women in Sport International
posted January 28, 2012 at 6:36pm

Tweet Don't you think it is time to celebrate women in sport? The National Association for Girls and Women in Sport ("NAGWS") is working hard to promote the 26th annual celebration of National Girls and Women in Sports Day in the United States schedule...more

University of Montana Football Players Linked to Wave of Sexual Assaults
by Title IX Blog
posted January 19, 2012 at 6:55pm

An article in Huffington Post describes an alarming series of sexual assaults involving football players at the University of Montana. Most recently, an incident in which multiple football players are accused of drugging and raping two female students ha...more

Washington basketball signee Katie Collier still battling leukemia, but back on the court
by Jayda Evans: Womens Hoops Blog
posted January 13, 2012 at 3:27am

King 5 reporter Chris Egan caught up with Seattle Christian senior Katie Collier, who is battling acute promyelocytic leukemia. She recently returned to playing, although it's sporadic and she's remains in treatment. Collier, a 6-foot-3 forward, signed i...more

And now college athletics ‘reform’ season begins
by Wendy Parker's Extracurriculars
posted January 11, 2012 at 7:22pm

Alabama had barely hoisted the BCS national championship trophy late Monday night when the long-winded explications of the entire college athletic landscape were being churned out. Actually, those missives have been continuing for a good long while. But ...more

7 Things You Need to Know About College Recruiting
by Softball Performance Blog
posted January 10, 2012 at 9:32pm

Written by Jen Croneberger 1. “It doesn’t take talent to hustle and be on time.” For many coaches, this is the first thing noticed. Who shows up early? Who runs on and off the field EVERY TIME regardless of what others are doing? You ...more

Is Hockey Player Alex Carpenter A ‘Weapon’?
by The First Line
posted January 2, 2012 at 7:04pm

When I said BC was without a “huge weapon,” aside from repeating the word ‘huge’ twice in two sentences and thus being in need of a thesaurus, was I being inaccurate?  After all, freshman phenom Carpenter is in the top 25 in s...more

Larry Scott: The big win in PAC 12 - Big 10 scheduling agreement is with Olympic sports and women's sports
by anngaff
posted December 30, 2011 at 11:18am

On Wednesday, the PAC-12 and the Big Ten announced an innovative scheduling agreement that will result in teams from each conference playing each other extensively in most sports as early as next year. At the press conference, PAC-12 commissioner L...more

Military Heroes vs. Softball All-Stars
by Dirt-n-the skirt
posted December 28, 2011 at 1:36pm

A Hero is not a word that is easily tossed around. They are people of distinguished courage or ability, admired for their brave actions. Our Heroes in the military are not always talked about on the news or in daily conversations. These men and women pu...more

UCLA Bruins, The 2011 NCAA National Volleyball Champions
by Bethany
posted December 17, 2011 at 11:31pm

The 2011 NCAA Women’s National Champions are the UCLA Bruins! The #9 seeded UCLA Bruins upset #3 seed Illinois for the championship! Illinois went further than they had ever gone in the NCAA tournament to reach the finals, while UCLA took down the ...more

Division I Cost-of-Living Stipends Draw Objection from Faculty
by Title IX Blog
posted December 3, 2011 at 1:11pm

When we blogged last month about the NCAA's vote to allow Division I institutions to provide athletes who receive full athletic scholarships with $2000 spending money stipends, we speculated that this proposal could exacerbate existing disparities in scho...more

Sport Scandals, Sexy Babes & Social Responsibility
by One Sport Voice
posted December 1, 2011 at 1:02pm

As I posted previously, I’ve had the opportunity to participate in a host of stimulating conferences and conversations in the past eight weeks related to girls and women in sport. I’m still musing about many things, but here are three I’...more

Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog: Team Hazing, Respect and Sports
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted November 29, 2011 at 7:43pm

The Andover High School boys’ basketball team began their season this week under a cloud of public scrutiny resulting from allegations about team hazing that occurred this summer while the team was attending a privately operated sleep-away basketbal...more

Ashley and Cameron Kastl making their mark at ASU
by amber0marie
posted November 29, 2011 at 11:19am

Ashley (volleyball) and Cameron (football) Kastl have both had to face significant challenges on their way to athletic success at Arizona State. Through it all, they have looked to each other for support. (Video by Amber Harding for PAC-12.org) ...more

NCAA VB: #5 Stanford Drops to #15 Oregon in Five
by Bethany
posted November 19, 2011 at 1:01pm

The match up between the #15 Oregon Ducks and #5 Stanford Cardinal brought a battle to Maples Pavilion with Oregon pulling the upset on Stanford in five sets (23-25, 25-20, 25-14, 22-25, 15-9). To add to the battle, both teams also managed to receive a ye...more

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