Archive for the ‘GenNext: Sport Girls’ Category
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
By Ashleigh Sargent
In between soufflé and sauce instruction, there's time for athletics. Yes, they do more than cook at the Culinary Institute of America. Since 2004, they've played intercollegiate sports (though no scholarship athletes here). And, unlike most college basketball teams, the CIA Steels are co-ed, thanks to the addition ...
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Sunday, January 1st, 2012
By Laura Pappano
SOMETIMES YOU LOSE – AND IT’S OK. The Women’s World Cup championship game between the U.S. and Japan honored the rise and intensity of women’s soccer. The back story was compelling: The U.S. Team’s dramatic run-up with Abby Wambach’s YouTube-play-it-again (and again) headers versus the determination of a ...
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Monday, December 19th, 2011
By Katie Culver
I work – really hard – at avoiding gender stereotypes with kids so I decided to tick through what we had lined up for Christmas this year: there was the Wii for my son and an American Girl doll for my daughter. Err – I mean, a Wii ...
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Thursday, November 24th, 2011
[caption id="attachment_2698" align="alignleft" width="768" caption="Monique Howard, right tackle for Pershing High"][/caption]
By Laura Pappano
Thanksgiving football, of course, involves Detroit. And while the NFL will get plenty of attention today, there has been another Detroit football story out there this season. Word that Monique Howard, 6-foot senior basketball player and track talent, ...
Posted in Football, GenNext: Sport Girls | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, September 27th, 2011
By Laura Pappano
When my 6th grade son announced he was “following in the family tradition” and joined the school field hockey team, I was surprised. Turns out, he’s not alone, but is one of four boys on the team in a sport trying to grow it’s male following.
Last spring as ...
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Monday, July 11th, 2011
By Laura Pappano
Suddenly, the story lines need tweaking.
Admit it: We had resigned ourselves to remembrances of the 1999 Women’s World Cup. Who didn’t watch grainy video highlights and years-later interviews with players and wonder if the Dawn of US women’s soccer and its Golden Age were one and the same?
There ...
Posted in GenNext: Sport Girls, Soccer, The Athletes | 2 Comments »
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
By Laura Pappano
This is my son’s favorite sweatshirt – from when he was 3. My sister made it for his pink-Red Sox-guitar-themed birthday.
Now he’s 12. He doesn’t wear much pink, but neither does he avoid it. He grabbed a pink towel the other day to go swimming.
So why do I ...
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Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
Former college player Megan Wood and current college player Rachael Goldenberg discuss the Women's College World Series.
By Megan Wood and Rachael Goldenberg
Megan: First off, can we please talk about the gender performance of the players?
Rachael: Make-up, and bows and jewels, oh my!
If you interested in reading more about Megan's views ...
Posted in GenNext: Sport Girls, Softball | No Comments »
Friday, May 6th, 2011
By Katie Culver
I was so excited about my son’s first soccer season, that I volunteered my husband and I to share responsibilities as the team’s coaches. The complicating matter: I was 40 weeks pregnant.
My third child was born two weeks later, which meant that – along with rainouts – much ...
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Thursday, April 28th, 2011
By Katie Culver
Given the frenzy surrounding The Royal Wedding and future Princess Kate Middleton-Windsor (we feminists can only hope for the hyphenated name), it seems prudent to consider the implications of “princess mania.”
To mothers of 4-year-old girls (I am one of those), the term needs no explanation. To those needing ...
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