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Des Moines, Iowa, will host the 2002 USA Gymnastics Championships at the Iowa Events Center, using the venue’s main events center, Wells Fargo Arena and Hy-Vee Hall. The annual event serves as the national championships across the developmental and elite levels for USA Gymnastics’ acrobatic, rhythmic, and trampoline and tumbling disciplines. For USA Gymnastics, it’s […]
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Greg Sankey has been the commissioner of the Southeastern Conference since 2015 and is generally regarded as one of the more powerful people in collegiate athletics, given the SEC’s dominance over college football. But Sankey’s career spans multiple regions and divisions across the NCAA, from working in Central New York as the director of intramural […]
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The University of Oklahoma has received the biggest single gift toward a women’s program in its history to give the Sooners softball program a new venue that will overhaul the stadium and training facilities. Love’s Travel Stops has provided the lead and naming gift for the University of Oklahoma’s new softball stadium. The company has […]
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Perfect Game has named NCAA softball champion and Team USA member Destinee Martinez as its national director of softball operations. Martinez joins Perfect Game after seven years with USA Softball, including the past two years as managing director of sport development. Martinez was the main liaison between USA Softball and Major League Baseball, developing and […]
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The second part of a report by a law firm hired by the NCAA to investigate gender equity issues issued recommendations that include the potential for a combined championship structure for men and women in multiple sports. “We have seen that combining at least some portion of the men’s and women’s championship for a given […]
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Kansas City’s National Women’s Soccer League team has announced plans for the league’s first purpose-built soccer stadium that would be located along the city’s riverfront with a cost of approximately $70 million. Kansas City NWSL owners Angie Long, Chris Long and Brittany Matthews made the announcement 10 months since the group was awarded a franchise […]
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The Atlantic 10 Conference will move its women’s basketball tournament to Chase Fieldhouse in Wilmington, Delaware, beginning in March 2022, moving the event back to a neutral site for the first time in several years as part of a multi-year agreement. The home of the NBA G League Delaware Blue Coats, Chase Fieldhouse is a […]
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The National Women’s Soccer League board of governors has appointed Marla Messing, the 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup president and chief executive officer, as its interim CEO to oversee the day-to-day operations. Messing will work in close coordination with the board of governors to execute on key initiatives that will promote actionable, sustainable change and […]
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The field for the NCAA Women’s Division I Basketball Tournament looks set to expand to 68 teams from 64 — just like the men — after a proposal was approved on Thursday afternoon by the Division I Women’s Basketball Committee and the Division I Women’s Basketball Oversight Committee. Since 2015, the format for the women’s […]
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The National Women’s Soccer League will move the 2021 championship game to Lynn Family Stadium in Louisville, Kentucky, home of the league’s newest expansion franchise Racing Louisville FC. The NWSL and NWSL Players Association made the announcement on Wednesday morning. The game was scheduled for Providence Park in Portland, Oregon, on an artificial turf surface […]
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