Category: ethics

Alaska Gymnastics team in jeopardy

Last March, the University of Alaska Anchorage gymnastics team concluded its historic 2019 season with a program record total of 194.200 at the MPSF championship. …

On June 28, Alaska governor Mike Dunleavy announced a massive reduction of state support for the University of Alaska system …  means the university’s state funding will fall by 40 percent for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2019. …

Alaska gymnastics head coach Tanya Ho and her team are waiting anxiously for news about the future of their team. …

Alaska already lags significantly behind the rest of the country in terms of access to higher education. As of 2014, it was one of only four U.S. states in which less than half of high school graduates immediately enrolled in college.

2020 Season in Doubt for Alaska Gymnastics Amid Unprecedented State Budget Cuts

use inclusive language as much as possible

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Inclusive Language for Internal and External Communications

related – Stop calling women ‘girls’

Girls are age-12 and younger. Next teenagers. And finally young women.

Chris Riegel accuses coach Larry Moyer

“I was sexually abused by my personal coach from 1973 to 1981, and due to the absolute failures of the USGF (USAG) and USOC, it wiped away my youth, cut short my career, and left me with wounds that never heal,” Riegel wrote in a letter to USA Gymnastics and SafeSport last October. …

Riegel is going public now out of frustration over the way USA Gymnastics handled his case both when he was a teenager and since he filed a complaint with the sport’s national governing body last fall. …

Moyer was forced out of the sport in 1993 by Mike Jacki, president of what was then called the U.S. Gymnastics Federation. Jacki confirmed the move, but the expulsion was not an official act and was never formally announced or made public, and Moyer is not listed on USA Gymnastics or the U.S. Center for SafeSport’s banned lists, something Riegel wants to change. …

Moyer recently turned 77. He lives in a red brick row house on a quiet tree-lined street next to a cemetery in Allentown, 35 miles from Reading. …

BEHIND THE WALLS: Sexual abuse in American men’s gymnastics

gender parity in the NCAA

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Katelyn’s speech at the ESPY Awards

Katelyn Ohashi has an important message. And makes it very poetically.

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related – Katelyn Ohashi’s ESPYs Acceptance Speech Not Only Rhymed, but It Left Us Shook

women in sport

… While four out of 10 athletes are female, just 4 percent of sports-related media coverage is devoted to them. They get only 5 percent of Sports Illustrated covers and a paltry 2 percent of airtime on ESPN’s SportsCenter.

And they’re often sexualized. …

The Importance of Photographing Women in Sports

 

#EqualPay for the #USWMNT

The women’s team is engaged in a gender discrimination lawsuit against the United States Soccer Federation because the organization pays male players far more than female players.  …

Crowd in stadium chants ‘equal pay’ after U.S. women’s soccer World Cup victory

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#WomenInSport

Congratulations USA.

Like Artistic Gymnastics, soccer is a sport in America where the female athletes are higher profile than the male. Role models.

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New Zealand club donates to FIJI & SAMOA

Avril Enslow, chief executive of the Christchurch School of Gymnastics, said the school donated the gym equipment to the Gymnastics Federation of Fiji to support the Oceania Gymnastics Union’s efforts to develop the sport in the region. …

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