Yankees Hire Female Hitting Coach, First Female Coach in MLB
The New York Yankees have hired Rachel Balkovec as a full time hitting coach for the club. She is believed to be the first female in the position. The Yankees said they hired her because is a good coach period.
While we applaud the Yankees for hiring her, we do find it a bit concerning that more women don't have a role at MLB Clubs. What can be done to make more opportunity for women at these clubs? There needs to be a change in culture so that its not groundbreaking that a women was hired by a professional mens team. We hope that as Rachel finds success at one of the most reputable clubs in baseball then other teams will follow suit and hire more women.
Women In Football and Barclays Partner
Barclays and Women in Football announced this week a 3 year partnership where Barclays will become a leading partner of Women in Football. The commitment of Barclays continues the recent string of brands that have stepped up to support the equal opportunity and treatment of women's professional sports. As we have mentioned Budweiser Canada, Secret, and so many more have shown an unprecedented support to women.
It is interesting that brands have continued to show their support to the women athletes and yet their is a serious lack of exposure to women's games. The television rarely shows a women's game on. One would think we the brand support that television exposure would follow. We hope that the brand support is phase 1 in a change of narrative to women's sports finally being viewed as equal.
Women Wrestling Program Setting the Standard
The wrestling program at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point is the first women's wrestling program in the mid west. In 1994 there were 804 women's wrestling programs nation wide, in 2018 there was 16,562 nation wide. There are official scholastic championships in 18 states, but Wisconsin isn't one of them which makes the story of the wrestling team at Stevens Point extremely inspiring.
The coaches and athletes had to fight to be recognized by their university. Through the use of convincing data they continued to push their athletic director to recognize them. It is inspiring that they were able to continuously advocate for themselves and get what they deserve. As the sport of wrestling continues to grow it will be interesting to see how many more women will have to fight for equal treatment.
UCONN vs TENNESSEE Basketball Rivalry Lives !
The rivalry lives!! This article takes us through a timeline of why tensions are at an all time high between UConn and the Lady Vols of Tennessee. In order to continue growing interest in women's sports we need rivalries like this one to heat things up! While Pat Summit may be gone now, the hatred between UConn and Tennessee is very much a live. They face off for the first time in thirteen years on January 23rd 2020. We can't wait to see how things develop on the court!
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