Category: Women in Sports
San Francisco Giant’s and MLB’s First Female Coach Reaches World Series Playoffs
By Dirk Smith, M.Sc, SDL (He/Him) 2020 was an important year for the MLB when the San Francisco...
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#LesbianVisibilityWeek- Katie Sowers the NFL’s First Openly Gay Coach and First Female Super Bowl Coach
By Dirk Smith, M.Sc, SDL (He/Him) The second annual Lesbian Visibility Week kicks off today, April...
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What exactly is Spikeball and Roundnet? Catching up with SDC Member Nora White for the Scoop
By Dirk Smith, M.Sc, SDL (He/Him) With the rise in popularity of Spikeball and Roundnet around the...
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Flagging Down A Cure for Breast Cancer with Mashonda Gilmore and the Lynn Lewis Foundation
By Dirk Smith, M.Sc, SDL (He/Him) All of us at Compete Sports Diversity are excited for the...
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NCAA March Madness Must Do Better To Confront Gender Inequality
By Dirk Smith, M.Sc, SDL (He/Him) As the NCAA March Madness tournament is wrapping up, we are...
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Nong Toom (Parinya Charoenphol) Fights Transgender Stereotypes Figuratively and Literally
By Dirk Smith, M.Sc, SDL (He/Him) When we think of transgender athletes who compete in combat...
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Megan Rapinoe Advocates for Protests over Boycotts and Calls for Athletes to Have a Voice
By Dirk Smith, M.Sc, SDL (He/Him) US Women’s National Soccer Team and Superstar, Megan Rapinoe...
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Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day and LGBTQ+ Irish Athletes
St. Patrick’s Day celebrated all throughout the world is Ireland’s most well-known national...
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Honoring Pioneering LGBTQ+ Female Athletes for International Women’s Day
By Dirk Smith, MSc, SDL Every year on March 8th, International Women’s Day is recognized around...
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Tokyo Olympics Makes Push Toward Gender Equality with 12 New Executive Board Appointees
By Dirk Smith, MSc, SDL (He/Him) Following the resignation of former Tokyo Olympics president...
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Super Bowl LV Most Diverse Super Bowl Yet
By Dirk Smith, MSc, SDL (He/Him) As people either cheered or booed the Buccaneers win as Tom Brady...
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Soccer’s Lorena Benitez
By K.C. Wang-Daniels (She, Her, Hers) When the International Gay and Lesbian Football Association...
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