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USA Swimming

USA Swimming Announces Domestic Competitions for 2024

USA Swimming has announced the dates for its domestic competitions for the 2024 calendar year in the leadup to the 2024 Olympic Summer Games in Paris. The event schedule is highlighted by the U.S. Olympic Team Trials from June 15-23 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, home of the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts. It will be […]

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U.S. Soccer Hires Leah Heister Burton as Chief Advancement Officer

U.S. Soccer has hired Leah Heister Burton as chief advancement officer. She will oversee a team leading the Federation’s efforts to secure and expand funding opportunities that increase U.S. Soccer’s visibility, impact and resources. Burton has more than 15 years of leadership experience overseeing organizations’ collective fundraising efforts. Most recently, Burton worked with the Solomon […]

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Nike Partners with USA Gymnastics Through 2028 Olympic Summer Games

Nike will serve as the official apparel and footwear partner of USA Gymnastics and its national team for the first time ever ahead of upcoming Olympic Summer Games in 2024 in Paris and 2028 in Los Angeles. The sponsorship agreement will go through the LA28 Games with Nike manufacturing and producing all sportswear and footwear […]

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USA Triathlon Unveils Ignite the Spark Campaign

USA Triathlon and the USA Triathlon Foundation has unveiled its Ignite the Spark campaign, a marketing and fundraising initiative that celebrates the multisport community, with one year to go until the opening ceremonies for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games in Paris. The campaign serves to empower triathletes — from U.S. Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls to […]

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IJRU World Jump Rope Championships
The 2023 IJRU World Jump Rope Championships in Colorado Springs saw 1,200 athletes compete from 25 countries. Photo by Jason Gewirtz

World Jump Rope Championships Leap to New Heights

In the sport of jump rope, athletes inevitably get tangled in a rope during a routine. When that happens, they take a step back, reset and get right back to business. It’s also an apt metaphor for the landscape of competitive jump rope in recent years. While the sport has been on the competitive scene […]

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USA Team Handball

Martin Branick Named CEO of USA Team Handball

USA Team Handball has promoted its interim chief executive officer Martin Branick to the permanent position as leader of the national governing body for the sport. “As interim CEO, Martin demonstrated a strong passion for the sport and keen knowledge of this organization,” said Michael Wall, USA Team Handball president and chairman. “We are thrilled […]

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USA Gymnastics Li Li Leung
USA Gymnastics President and Chief Executive officer Li Li Leung speaks during the Winter Cup competition in Indianapolis in February 2021. Leung detailed to SportsTravel recently the NGB's plans to have a national training and wellness center built in partnership with a destination in the coming years. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)

Li Li Leung on USA Gymnastics’ Search for a National Training and Wellness Center

USA Gymnastics is looking to build a national training and wellness center that will serve as the hub for the national governing body and has issued a request of expressions of interest directed at destinations and real estate developers targeting a 2026 project completion, said President and Chief Executive Officer Li Li Leung during a […]

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Mike McAtee: USA Boxing’s Fight Against the IBA’s Corruption and World Boxing’s Future

USA Boxing Executive Director Mike McAtee discussed the years-long process in coming with plans for a new international federation in the wake of the IOC’s expulsion of the International Boxing Association, the various issues the national governing body has had with the IBA — including fight manipulation — and more in an episode of the […]

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United States Olympic & Paralympic Foundation Elects Geoff Yang as Chair

Geoff Yang has been elected as the chair for the United States Olympic & Paralympic Foundation Board of Directors after the recommendation of his nomination by the USOPF Nominating and Governance Committee and Executive Committees. The foundation was established in 2013 to serve as the philanthropic arm of the USOPC. When Yang’s term begins, he […]

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Softball fans watch Oklahoma and Tennessee play during the fourth inning of a Women's College World Series game on June 3 in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Nate Billings)

College World Series Shows Off for Oklahoma City, USA Softball

One of the most dominant teams in collegiate sports history, Oklahoma University’s softball team is nearly three weeks removed from beating Florida State in the Women’s College World Series to be the first repeat champions since UCLA in 1990, finishing a season in which it won the final 53 games of the season to finish […]

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