From Major League Baseball to boys’ baseball, coaches and leagues have a prescriptive to keep players safe, but the same doesn’t hold true for girl athletes.
Teen Laurel Kujan applies foundation, mascara and bronzer before her volleyball games, which she says can help minimize some of her worries while playing. She and some other teen athletes feel they play their best when they look their best.
The world’s soccer body just held its presidential elections, but it’s a distant pipe dream that a new president will do much to fix what has bent the “beautiful game” so badly out of shape.
Nonprofits have been working with law enforcers and members of the public ahead of the big game on Feb. 7. An airport official in the Bay Area says the benefits extend beyond this single event, since the problem is year-round.
Runners Without Borders provides a dose of normalcy that’s not always easy for its members to handle. “Some of our friends think that this is disloyal to the Palestinian cause,” says the mother of one girl. “It isn’t always comfortable for us.”
Since girls have a dramatically higher risk of ACL tears, teen athletes wish the adults who are supervising them would require some simple strength-training exercises to prevent this widespread and disabling knee injury.
When Patsy Mink died in 2002, she left us both a legacy and a law. This Equality Day, it is time to insist and demand that Title IX’s mandate and promise be realized. Maybe it’s time for another Women’s Strike for Equality.
The new sports teams, according to the city’s Department of Education, will come over the next four years as the country’s largest school system responds to a Title IX complaint brought by the National Women’s Law Center.
These nine elite athletes have broken barriers and records in a variety of sports such as swimming, mountain climbing and soccer. But for some, cycling is a brand-new experience. They are riding on a team with the Persian name Shirzanan, or “female heroes.”
The distracting discussion about this fantastic athlete’s “muscularity” is a window to a world where other women of color live, too. Lesbian and bisexual women are also targets. These narrow beauty norms, by the way, can be costly for all female athletes.
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