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Meghan Maiwald and the San Jose State University Women's Soccer Team
by BAWSI Drea
posted April 19, 2012 at 11:50am

Support Meghan Maiwald and the USA Women’s Deaf National Soccer Team on their journey to the Deaf World Cup and Deaflympics....more

Women's USA Deaf National Soccer Team Hold Fundraiser with Columbus Crew
by Meghan Maiwald
posted April 18, 2012 at 10:18am

The best team that you never heard of: USW(Deaf)NT. The USWDNT is made of women of all kinds of different levels of deafness; some only ASL or speaking as the primary language, or 50-50, like me. We come from all corners of the country and our age’s range...more

Shoes, Strength, and Other Lower Legisms
by alangelier
posted March 23, 2012 at 10:55pm

Musings on how I beat lower leg injury....more

Where We Find Meaning as Athletes
by BAWSI Miyoko
posted March 14, 2012 at 2:40pm

  Earning my first podium position at an international figure skating competition is one of my favorite figure skating memories. We were in Slovenia, proudly wearing our Canadian Junior National Figure Skating Team jackets, and everything came toget...more

Athletes Giving Back!
by BAWSI Drea
posted March 12, 2012 at 11:58pm

Santa Clara University Cross Country athletes give back to their community by teaching adaptive sports to children with disabilities....more

The Canadian Wheelchair Basketball Team Gears Up To Host First Ever U25 World Championships
by Women in Sport International
posted July 6, 2011 at 4:41pm

[Editors Note: Everyone knows that women's sports receive horrible coverage in the traditional sports news media. This article is the first of a series of articles on this blog in which we will be interviewing top female athletes from sports that are unde...more

Canadian Wheelchair Basketball League Open finals: Co-ed Teams Compete in Surrey BC April 8-10
by Women in Sport International
posted April 7, 2011 at 11:05pm

Canada's best wheelchair basketball players will be in South Surrey, British Columbia this coming weekend.A local British Columbia website is reporting that the co-ed teams will be competing starting Friday April 8 until Sunday April 10. The winning team...more

Women's First World U25 Wheelchair Basketball Championships: July 15-21
by Women in Sport International
posted March 31, 2011 at 6:45pm

The inaugural world championships for young female wheelchair basketball players will take place from July 15-21 at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. The tournament will feature teams from eight nations: Canada, Australia, Germany, Grea...more

Disabled Triathlon messes with rules
by Women's Sports Blog
posted July 15, 2010 at 6:51pm

Frederick Dreier of the Times reports that the New York City Triathletes is changing its rules in order to require that all blind triathletes who wish to qualify for the world championships to race in the same category.  This means that those with partia...more

Tsuchida continues dominance at Boston
by Women's Sports Blog
posted April 20, 2010 at 6:16pm

Wakako Tsuchida of Japan made it four in a row in the women's wheelchair category at the Boston Marathon.  Tsuchida, 35, is also a Paralympic gold medalist in ice sledge racing.  Ethiopia's Teyba Erkesso squeaked out a close win among TAB runners.  ...more

See Amy Run: Meet record-breaking athlete Amy Palmiero-Winters
by Pretty Tough
posted January 16, 2010 at 3:10pm

I came across this amazing woman on Bust and was intrigued by the opening paragraph. The word ’superwoman’ is thrown around way too often, but here’s an athlete who completely deserves the description. Amy Palmiero-Winters is a 37-year-old mother o...more

Meet Tanni Grey-Thompson: Paralympic phenom, cultural feminist
by ...Because I Played Sports
posted February 20, 2009 at 4:26pm

Recently retired Tanni Grey-Thompson is now a Gamechangers judge. She’s Britain’s greatest ever paralympic athlete. In the below video, she talks about her career and how her wheelchair gave her the freedom to do what she wanted. According to Gamec...more

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