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Two sisters, one award. Nneke talks about Chiney, the 2009-10 Gatorade Player of the Year
by HoopFeed.com
posted March 26, 2010 at 10:05am

Already known as a dynamic duo of women’s basketball, sisters Nneka and Chiney Ogwumike added to their resume of hoop accomplishments with the younger sibling earning this year’s Gatorade High School Girls Basketball Player of the Year award. Nneka ...more

More Awarding
by C and R's Stanford Women's Basketball Blog
posted March 24, 2010 at 8:08pm

Let’s see, what describes it best?The Three Trees?The Three Amigos?The Three-Headed Beast? What is that thing called, a kraken? No, wait, make that Cerberus, that three-headed dog thing that guards Hades. Okay my kids and I were playing “Munchkin”, ...more

Faezeh Hashemi award for excellence in sport
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted March 17, 2010 at 11:09pm

Muslim sporting heroes are rarely away from the public gaze. From the track to the boxing ring, from all over the globe, Muslims are setting sporting records. Few, however, have paralleled the achievements of Faezeh Hashemi and few receive so little publi...more

Sports Program for Muslim Females by Lopiano
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted March 17, 2010 at 10:16pm

Former Texas Women's Athletics Director Donna Lopiano will be one of six inaugural recipients of "The Champions: Pioneers and Innovators in Sports Business," at the IMG World Congress of Sports on March 17 in Los Angeles. The award recognizes the architec...more

WBCA Junior College/Community College awards announced
by HoopFeed.com
posted March 16, 2010 at 8:30pm

The Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) announced that Gulf Coast Community College’s Andrea Smith won a the State Farm/WBCA Junior College/Community College (JC/CC) Player of the Year award. The WBCA presents the honor annually to the top ...more

Steph Gilmore, World Action Sportsperson of the Year
by Dyla Magazine - Women's Action Sports Coalition
posted March 14, 2010 at 3:48pm

Stephanie Gilmore has won the prestigious Laureus World Action Sportsperson of the year award, elevating her to among the world's elite athletes. The victory put Gilmore alongside the likes of superstar sprinter Usain Bolt, tennis ace Serena Williams an...more

Nominate your female Sports Hero
by Pretty Tough
posted March 11, 2010 at 9:32pm

March is Women’s History Month and there is no better way to honor female athletes than by nominating them for one of the Women’s Sports Foundation’s 2010 award programs. Current open nominations include: Sportswoman of the Year Award. Every year,...more

Stanford-bound Chiney Ogwumike wins Morgan Wootten award
by HoopFeed.com
posted March 10, 2010 at 8:31pm

Stanford-bound prep star Chiney Ogwumike is the winner of the 2010 Morgan Wootten Player of the Year Award for her accomplishments on and off the court. McDonald’s along with Morgan Wootten, legendary coach and McDonald’s All American Games selectio...more

Michael Vick is very Courageous, says Michael Vick
by Draft Day Suit
posted March 10, 2010 at 10:13am

I am very tired of talking about Michael Vick. He has been in the news for what feels like an eternity and it would be nice to move on. But then the Eagles went and picked him as their team’s nominee for this year’s Ed Block Awards, named for the lon...more

Hall of Fame Projector Test: Looking at HOF Players
by Pleasant Dreams - An Atlanta Dream Blog
posted March 8, 2010 at 9:52pm

Ever since I discovered Basketball-Reference.com's Hall of Fame Probability calculation metric, I've been very interested in building something similar for the WNBA. However, there was a collection of stats that I didn't have - the MVP award shares, whic...more

Giving out some awards
by Sports Girls Play
posted February 27, 2010 at 3:16pm

I haven’t taken time in quite a while to recognize some of my blogging friends, but since Shaunelle (check out her awesome collection of little girls hairstyles – perfect inspiration for game day/competition day hair) gave me the Beautiful Blogger Awa...more

Another Damn Am Award
by Girls Riders Organization, Inc.
posted February 9, 2010 at 9:04pm

Lacey Baker won an award again this year at the Damn Am Awards. Last year her title was, ‘Skates Like A Dude’ and this year she won ‘My Hardflip Is Better Than Yours’ Congrats! ...more

Paralympian Sara Will to be inducted into U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame
by Women Skiing and Sports
posted February 9, 2010 at 6:41pm

Sara Will loves to ski. When she became paralyzed in a skiing accident in 1988, she didn't turn her back on the sport. Instead, she picked up a book on adaptive skiing by Hal O'Leary and started to train under him at Winter Park. Within three years she wo...more

Black Enterprise Announces 2010 Women of Power Awards
by Women Undefined
posted February 5, 2010 at 11:22am

From: MarketWatch : This year's Legacy Award winners are B. Smith, Founder & Chief Creative Officer, B. Smith Enterprises; Hon. Shirley Jackson, Ph.D., President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Audrey Smaltz: CEO and Founder, The Ground Crew Worldwi...more

Possible Wooden Winners
by Kaci Kust
posted January 14, 2010 at 5:01pm

The John R. Wooden Award is the most prestigious individual honor in college basketball. It is awarded to the nation’s best player at an institution who has prove to his or her university that he or she is making progress toward graduation by mainta...more

Wooden Award midseason watch list announced
by HoopFeed.com
posted January 13, 2010 at 7:11pm

The Los Angeles Athletic Club’s John R. Wooden Award Committee announced the top 21 candidates for the award today. Because of a tie in the voting, 21 players were named rather than the traditional 20. The midseason list is based on individual excel...more

Marta? Again? Really?: FIFA's Player of the Year Award is, when it comes to women, a joke.
by From A Left Wing
posted January 4, 2010 at 11:22am

Last month Marta was awarded the World Footballer of the Year trophy for the forth time. I have said it before: Marta is a great player. But in ten years, only three women have been given this award (Mia Hamm got it twice, & Birgit Prinz three times...more

NBC names Lindsey Vonn athlete of the decade
by ...Because I Played Sports
posted January 3, 2010 at 3:59pm

Lindsey Vonn, Olympic Skiier. Photo credit: Wikipedia.org That’s right, this week, along with a new year, we’re celebrating a new decade. It’s 2010, and 10 years have officially gone by since the start of this new millennium. Today, according to...more

Genuine Puzzlement
by Women's Sports Blog
posted January 2, 2010 at 4:12pm

I'm still perplexed by the pushback thoughtful people are giving to the idea that horses are athletes. Since they're thoughtful people I may be wrong in my own conclusions, but I will continue to try and be persuasive anyway. Is the problem the ration...more

Best of 09: D3 Women's Hoops
by Kaci Kust
posted January 2, 2010 at 3:04pm

Many teams won big games, and many players had impressive seasons but two things stood out above the rest to me in D3 Hoops in 2009. The first is pink. Pink shoelaces. Pink warm-up shirts. Pink headbands. Pink ribbons. Pink uniforms. Over 1,000 teams part...more

Advice for SI on its top athletes of the decade
by Women's Sports Blog
posted December 28, 2009 at 12:15pm

Rank May-Treanor and Walsh higher, since their dominance within their sport was unmatched. Consider Prinz and Wambach co-top-players with Marta. Germany has won two World Cups and the U.S. has won two Olympic golds over the past ten years, and these...more

2009 Female Athlete of the Year: Serena Williams or Yelena Isinbaeva?
by Athletic Women Blog
posted December 28, 2009 at 12:02pm

Last week the Associated Press named Serena Williams its Female Athlete of the Year. Not long after the United States Sports Academy named Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbaeva its Female Athlete of the Year. Despite its name, the USSA selects athletes f...more

Horses are athletes
by Women's Sports Blog
posted December 24, 2009 at 12:42pm

Re: the tempest in a teapot involving the selection of Zenyatta to the athlete of the year list (the mare was second, and filly Rachel Alexandra was seventh), the double standard seems to be the most important hang-up to address. If horses are considere...more

UNC soccer player takes top national honors
by Pretty Tough
posted December 23, 2009 at 10:07pm

Whitney Engen, a senior at North Carolina, has won the 2010 Honda Sports Award in soccer, designating her as the nation’s top collegiate female athlete in that sport. The honor was based on the results of national balloting among 1,000 NCAA member schoo...more

Should Serena be Athlete of the Year?
by Cool Adventure Girls!
posted December 23, 2009 at 9:11pm

Apparently threatening to shove a tennis ball down the line judge’s throat wasn’t enough to preclude Serena Williams from being named the 2009 Athlete of the Year. I mean, it’s not like she said “f-ing ball or f-ing throat” or ranted so loudly...more

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