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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

DC football coach makes national headlines
by Draft Day Suit
posted June 12, 2010 at 4:45pm

In March, Natalie Randolph was named head varsity football coach of Coolidge High School in Washington D.C. Yes, HER name is Natalie. She brings with her an impressive resume’. Randolph ran her way onto the track team at University of Virginia and e...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

WCWS: Yankees Vs. Yankees
by Women's Sports Blog
posted June 8, 2010 at 7:53pm

For all the parity this WCWS brought in its initial stages, here we are again with the usual suspects. They may play compelling softball and that's the heart of the matter,* but they're not teams that fans other than their (considerably sized) faithful ...more

USA Basketball invitees: some come back and some don't
by They're Playing Basketball
posted June 7, 2010 at 5:25pm

Ariya Crook-Williams has been invited to try out for USA Basketball's U18 team:Ariya Crook-Williams, the 5-foot-7 point guard from Long Beach, Calif., told ESPN HoopGurlz she has a confirmed invite to the USA Basketball U18 National Team Trials at the U.S...more

More on the Pac-10 and Big 12 rumblings
by They're Playing Basketball
posted June 7, 2010 at 3:57pm

The Pac-10 commissioner has been given the authority to expand the conference. A decision will be made by the end of the year.The Big 12 has given the Universities of Nebraska and Missouri until Friday to declare whether they'll stay in the conference or ...more

KICK IT UP! launches at FIFA World Cup
by Pretty Tough
posted June 6, 2010 at 4:06pm

Soccer (or football as it’s known around the globe) is the world’s most popular sport, and Global Girl Media is using the largest international soccer event to help young women find their voices. The non-profit org’s pilot project KICK IT UP! has ...more

What colleges look for in a recruit
by Sports Girls Play
posted June 6, 2010 at 3:48pm

Got your sights set on doing your sport at a college level? How do you know what a college is looking for in a student-athlete? The super gymnastics resource site, Gymnastike, has loads of interviews with college gymnastics coaches from across the nation ...more

Too much offense in the Softball Women's College World Series?
by Softball Performance Blog
posted June 5, 2010 at 2:07pm

Guest Post by Don McKay, Softball Editor for Bellaonline. I was watching Game 2 of the UCLA/Florida game yesterday on ESPNU and was kind of blown away by some of the commentary by Michelle Smith and Pam Ward. Because the game had controversy (6 illega...more

Big 12 and Oregon State
by They're Playing Basketball
posted June 4, 2010 at 9:16pm

First the Big 12 news conference regarding rumors of the conference's supposed break up was cancelled. Now Commissioner Dan Beebe says he's "comfortable" the league will stay intact. Which is it?In the meantime, the Pac-10 is supposedly going to expand. I...more

Community saves sports at Bakersfield
by Title IX Blog
posted June 2, 2010 at 6:57pm

In February we noted that CSU Bakersfield was, due to budget shortfalls, being forced to cut four sports: golf (MW), tennis (W), and wrestling (M).But community members and donors have rallied in what appears to be two separate campaigns to raise money to...more

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