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HerStory WNY is an oral history project documenting the voices of women who shaped sports in Western New York. Through interviews, stories, and historical reflections, this newsletter connects past experiences with today’s evolving sports landscape.
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More Than a Safe Space: The Role of All-Girls Schools in Basketball History (opens the original)
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She rolled her eyes.It’s a visual that has stayed with me nearly 25 years later.At a media event in the early 2000s that gathered all the Western New York college basketball coaches, they ended the formal session with each coach giving their picks for the NCAA tournament.As one of the men’s coaches went to pick his Final Four on the women’s side, he laughed, furiously looked over the bracket, and said, “Immaculata. They’re pretty good, right?”Enter the eye roll from one of the women’s coaches wh
The Future of Women in Sports Media Is in Good Hands (opens the original)
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The last few weeks have been challenging for women in sports media. There was the advertisement for a prediction market geared toward male sports fans that leaned into the age-old trope of sexualizing women around sports.Then there were the laughs heard ‘round the world — again. At a University of Texas press conference, male laughter encouraged quarterback Arch Manning, who apparently found an AI video of his coach violently slapping ESPN reporter Holly Rowe “hilarious.”So here we are, again, t
Strong Is Sexy — But Why Does It Have to Be? (opens the original)
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You mean you ain’t taking her because she ain’t pretty.Well, look who finally caught up.That line has been rattling around in my head this week as the internet debates — yet again — what a “real” female athlete should look like.The debate seems to have been sparked by actor Sydney Sweeney’s viral promotional campaign for the sports prediction market Novig. The ad features Sweeney nearly nude, strategically covering herself with sports equipment like b
The Dynasty and the Bake Sale (opens the original)
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Geno and Pat.If you are a women’s sports fan of a certain age, you only need those two names to signify one of the fiercest rivalries in all of sports. Not just women’s sports — sports, period.The height of the UConn-Tennessee women’s basketball rivalry stretched from 1995 to 2004. Pat Summitt’s Lady Vols and Geno Auriemma’s Huskies met 22 times, often with championships on the line. Only twice during that era did a school other than UConn or Tennessee win the NCAA national championship (Purdue
There’s no one here to save (opens the original)
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Protecting women’s sports.Today, the phrase is often used as a political shorthand, but its meaning in public debate has drifted far from the realities lived by the women who built these programs.“Protecting women’s sports” implies that women’s sports are fragile and vulnerable. That they are dependent on someone with more power to protect them.But the history, as experienced by women who are part of the Herstory WNY archives, suggests something more nuanced. Title IX protected the right to oppo
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