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Jennie Finch among speakers at second annual Empowering Girls convention

By Patricia Babcock McGraw
Aug 9, 2019 6:34 PM - The second annual Empowering Girls for Life Convention will be held Saturday at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont. A variety of big-name and accomplished female speakers, mostly from the sports world, have gathered to impart a motivating and uplifting message to young girls at a free event.
Boston Marathon's first female runner continues to blaze a trail

By Patricia Babcock McGraw
Jul 26, 2019 6:28 PM - After more than 50 years since she was the first woman to run in the Boston Marathon, Kathrine Switzer hasn't slowed down much.
Women's Watch: Will pending lawsuit distract U.S women's soccer team from World Cup prize?

By Patricia Babcock McGraw
May 10, 2019 6:34 PM - The Goliath U.S. women's national soccer team is taking on the field as the heavyweight and the defending champion in the 2019 Women's World Cup, set to kick off next month in France. But can the U.S. women stay completely focused while they have an equal pay legal dispute with U.S. Soccer on their minds?
Women's Watch: A look back at the top moments in 2018

By Patricia Babcock McGraw
Jan 4, 2019 7:48 PM - Women's Watch takes a look back at 10 of the best women's sports stories of 2018.
DePaul basketball coach Bruno sidelined after spinal surgery

By Patricia Babcock McGraw
Dec 15, 2018 6:46 AM - Longtime DePaul coach might be going from his usual place on the sidelines to being sidelined himself while he recovers from spinal surgery.
Babcock McGraw: Suburban mom ready to tackle Chicago Marathon, eyes Olympics

By Patricia Babcock McGraw
Oct 7, 2018 6:00 AM - Attention women: Just because you're in your late 30s and have kids (even as many as 4 kids), your competitive athletic life isn't over. Suburban runner Jeannie Sullivan, a mom of four kids under age 9, will be running the Chicago Marathon on Sunday and is flirting with a qualifying time for the 2020 Olympic Trials.
These senior woman are still ballers on the court

By Patricia Babcock McGraw
Sep 21, 2018 7:03 PM - Retiring at 65? Not from basketball. Meet some senior women who are going strong on the hardwood into their 60s, 70s and even 80s. The National Senior Olympics recently held a qualifying event in West Dundee for basketball and a handful of Chicago area women qualified. The national event, featuring athletes ages 50 to 100, will take place in New Mexico in June 2019.
Rozner: For a night, Team USA women give gift of sport

By Barry Rozner
Feb 22, 2018 7:44 PM - For a few hours Thursday morning, social media was a happy place after Team USA beat Canada in women's Olympic hockey.
Gold! U.S. women's Olympic hockey team beats Canada in OT

Associated Press
Feb 22, 2018 1:49 AM - Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson scored in the first extra round of the first shootout tiebreaker in Olympic women's hockey history to give the United States the gold medal with a 3-2 victory over Canada.
It's Russians, then everybody else in figure skating short program

Liz Clarke
Feb 21, 2018 10:04 AM - The Russian teens who have dominated women's figure skating all season -- 15-year-old Alina Zagitova and two-time world champion Evgenia Medvedeva, 18, float impossibly high above the rest -- part ballerina, part butterfly -- tricking their adoring audience into believing that what they do is simply too pretty to be a sport.

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