PHOTO CREDIT: Beverly Schaefer/Courtesy of Princeton Athletics
This year marks the 45th anniversary of Title IX, the landmark legislation that has significantly improved the ability of girls and women to participate in sports. Their participation in college athletics has grown seven-fold in the past 45 years, according to a
Although women's hockey has seen exponential growth since its first Olympic tournament in 1998, there is still much to be done to foster diversity within the game. Both men's and women's hockey suffer from a lack of representation for nonwhite athletes; moreover, it doesn't look as though USA Hockey or
Before reading this article, you should be familiar with terms/concepts such as afab/amab pertaining to assigned gender at birth and nonbinary gender. You may also want to look at nonbinary.org's list of nonbinary identities.
When Buffalo Beauts forward Harrison Browne publicly came out as a trans man
"Everyone loves to score goals and get assists, but there are little aspects of the game that make me feel like a great player, when I am doing them successfully."
Connecticut Whale forward Nicole Connery knows the importance of being a 200-foot player, giving her best effort in every zone
Buffalo Beauts forward Shiann Darkangelo is part of a unique group of players in the National Women's Hockey League this season. Having played with Connecticut last year, she's one of just ten NWHLers to have suited up for more than one team in the young league.
In the league's premier
On Friday, Harrison Browne, a forward in his second season with the NWHL's Buffalo Beauts, publicly announced that he's a transgender man. It was a historic moment for North American professional team sports, and a series of scheduled features, interviews, and posts went live throughout the day. In the future,
This past Thursday, Cyd Zeigler, co-founder of SBNation's popular Outsports site, was quoted as voicing his frustration that there are no publicly out gay men in any of North America's major sports leagues. When pressed for the reason this might be, he stated that closeted gay athletes were "cowards" for
Navigating an athletic career can be challenging, especially for female athletes, as they deal with societal expectations about their appearance. While this dynamic affects some female athletes more than others when it comes to sponsorships, no one is completely immune.
As long as professional sports have been around, there's been
As I wrote last week, my teammates and I supervised a camp for over 200 junior soccer players, and next week, we will start a camp of our own. Friday officially marked the end of our summer training. We have run and lifted a tremendous amount the past 6 weeks
I've had an extremely busy week, as my team was required to be camp counselors to almost 200 junior soccer players aged 13 to 18. During our minimal off time, I started to think about what I'd talk about in my next blog post. Being around young soccer players gave
