This Week's Women's Sports Recap
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Nikki Hiltz completes the sweep, wins two USATF Indoor Championships.
Nikki Hiltz delivered in a big way, completing the 1,500m and 3,000m sweep at the 2025 USATF Indoor Championships.
In both races, Hiltz executed perfectly.?
On Saturday, Shelby Houlihan led the 3,000m for most of the race. The pace was slow early but ramped up over the final 1,000m. It turned into a kicker's race, and Hiltz was able to capitalize, catching Houlihan in the last 50 meters and scoring the win in 8:48.28. Houlihan finished second in 8:48.43.
Then on Sunday, Hiltz returned to race the 1,500m.
In that effort, Hiltz went to the front and controlled a pedestrian early pace. Their pole positioning was crucial and Hiltz was able to fend off any challengers over the final 200m sprint. Hiltz crossed the line in 4:05.76 for the win, followed by Sinclaire Johnson in second with her 4:06.05.
Ally, Alex Bowman team up with Unrivaled League for Homestead scheme highlighting equal support for men’s and women’s sports.
American basketball superstar Breanna Stewart excitedly approached the No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet sitting on Homestead-Miami Speedway pit road. As she looked over the car’s brightly colored, specially detailed pink and teal paint scheme, the 6-foot-4, three-time Olympic gold medalist wondered aloud how drivers climbed in through the small window opening.
The excitement was palpable as she and some of her fellow Unrivaled League players — Dijonai Carrington and Marina Mabrey — looked over the car Alex Bowman will steer in the March 23 NASCAR Cup Series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. It was the high-wattage result of sponsor Ally’s involvement in bringing together two popular sports worlds — stock car racing and women’s basketball.
The NASCAR race at Homestead will come a week after the Unrivaled League finishes its inaugural season of three-on-three women’s professional basketball that Stewart co-founded and of which Ally — which sponsors Bowman’s car — is a founding partner.
Mikaela Shiffrin seals legacy as one of skiing's greatest with historic 100 World Cup wins.
hree months after a bruising crash that resulted in a punctured abdomen and left her traumatized, American Mikaela Shiffrin made history on Sunday — becoming the first athlete in Alpine skiing to win 100 World Cup races.
"Everybody's been so nice and so supportive, all of my teammates and competitors and coaches and the whole World Cup," Shiffrin said at a press conference on Sunday. "I'm so grateful. Thank you. And the fans, thank you."
The accomplishment was especially poignant given that Shiffrin's first attempt at her 100th World Cup title ended in a serious fall last November.
The 29-year-old endured a deep puncture wound in her abdomen, severe muscle trauma, and mental and psychological stress in the aftermath, the Associated Press reported.
Diana Taurasi’s legendary competitive fire shattered gender expectations.
Diana Taurasi, a three-time NCAA Champion, six-time EuroLeague Champion, three-time WNBA Champion, three-time Women’s World Cup gold medalist and six-time Olympic gold medalist, announced Tuesday that she’s played her final game of professional basketball in a profile written by Time magazine’s Sean Gregory. She described feeling content “mentally and physically full” when discussing her decision to retire. But there are elements of the game she’ll miss.
“I’m going to miss the competition,” Taurasi said. “I’m going to miss trying to get better every single offseason. I’m going to miss the bus rides, shootarounds. I’m going to miss the inside jokes. I’m going to miss the locker room, the things that come with being on a basketball team. All those things, I’ll deeply miss.”
During her 20-season professional career and four-year college career at UConn in the early 2000s, all she did was win. She played her entire WNBA career for the Phoenix Mercury, which drafted her first overall in the 2004 WNBA Draft.?
She retires from the sport as the WNBA’s all-time leader in scoring (10,646 career points) and in three-point shooting (1,447 three-points made). Many talking heads in the sport have her ranked in women’s basketball as the greatest of all time, the GOAT.?
Prime Video greenlights “For The Win: NWSL” - New sports docuseries.
One of the most important final pieces to the puzzle for the NWSL has long been the storytelling and connection with their audience - the supporters and fans.
Netflix has recently dominated the sports docuseries, headlined by Formula 1: Drive to Survive. They even branched out further with Break Point (tennis), Full Swing (golf), and so much more.
However, now, it’s officially time for the NWSL and Prime Video to get into the game.
Today, Prime Video greenlit a new sports docuseries from Words + Pictures. For The Win: NWSL will highlight the 2024 NWSL playoffs through the viewpoints of Alex Morgan, Marta, Trinity Rodman, and Croix Bethune.
Presented by Prime Video Sports, For The Win: NWSL will premiere exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide. The docuseries gives the audience a behind the scenes look at the sport’s biggest idols and on off the pitch with exclusive interviews, locker-room access, and match highlights. By bringing their stories to the light, Prime Video Sports and NWSL hope to capture the nostalgia, emotion and fierce competition.