published July 17, 2010 at 12:25pm EDT
CHINEY OGWUMIKE CHOSEN AS GATORADE HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETE OF THE YEAR
The biggest names in high school and professional sports convened in Los Angeles today as Gatorade honored the top prep male and female athletes with the eighth annual High School Athlete of the Year awards. Just yards from L.A. Live’s Nokia Theatre and tonight’s ESPY Awards, players and their families came from around the nation to find out who would take home the big trophies. Power forward Chiney Ogwumike, who will join her sister at Stanford in the fall, was honored as the 2010 National Female High School Athlete of the Year. Future Kentucky Wildcat Brandon Knight, a guard from Fort Lauderdale Pine Crest who averaged 31.9 points, 8.6 rebounds and 3.6 assists last season for the Panthers, scooped up the male athlete of the year. It was the fourth time in eight years that the male and female awards went to a pair of basketball players. The previous hoops duo to win were Kevin Love of the Minnesota Timberwolves and Maya Moore of Connecticut in 2007. Chiney averaged 22.9 p [Read More]published July 15, 2010 at 5:41pm EDT
published July 12, 2010 at 7:57pm EDT
published July 9, 2010 at 12:03am EDT
FIRST WOMEN ELECTED TO HOCKEY HALL OF FAME
The Hockey Hall of Fame is no longer just for men. Hockey pioneers Cammi Granato and Angela James changed that on Tuesday when they became the first women elected to be enshrined in Toronto. Along with former NHL All-Star Dino Ciccarelli, Granato and James will go in as part of the players category during an induction ceremony in November. While women had always been eligible for induction, the Hall made it easier for them to be voted in when it established a women’s subcategory this year. Granato played on the U.S. women’s hockey team for 15 years and led the club to a gold medal at the 1998 Nagano Olympics. Her brother, Tony, played and coached in the NHL. Granato retired as international hockey’s all time leading women’s scorer. In official events, Granato played 54 games, scoring 54 goals and 96 points. She won one Olympic gold and one silver, as well as one World Championship gold and eight silver. “I dreamed of being in the NHL my entire life, and this certainly [Read More]published June 23, 2010 at 3:36pm EDT
MARCIA MILGROM DODGE: A DIRECTOR’S STORY
Marcia Milgrom Dodge has been working as a theatre director for 30 years. This past year she made it to Broadway for the first time with the critically-lauded production of Ragtime. The show did not make it, but Milgrom Dodge and the production received multiple Tony nominations. In this interview with PBS’ Need to Know, Milgrom Dodge talks about making a career as a working director around the country. Here’s to hoping it doesn’t take another 30 years for her to make it back to Broadway. Watch the full episode. See more Need To Know. A Broadway director’s unexpected date with Tony and#40;PBS- Need to Knowand#41; [Read More]published June 23, 2010 at 3:35pm EDT
VOLLEYBALL STAR MEGAN HODGE AND BASKETBALL STANDOUT MAYA MOORE BOTH WIN 2010 HONDA-BRODERICK CUP
The Collegiate Women Sports Awards today announced that for only the second time in its 34-year history two female athletes have tied for the annual Honda-Broderick Cup, its top honor designating the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year. This year’s winners, both of whom were presented with their prestigious awards at a special ceremony today in Los Angeles at UCLA’s J.D. Morgan Center, are volleyball star Megan Hodge, a senior at Penn State University and basketball standout Maya Moore, a University of Connecticut junior. Both athletes were selected as winners of the Honda-Broderick Cup by voting among 1,000 NCAA member schools and the Board of Directors of the Collegiate Women Sports Awards Program. Today’s ceremony in Los Angeles was attended by all “Top Three” finalists for the 2010 award, including both Hodge and Moore as well as track and field distance runner Lisa Koll from Iowa State University. Hodge is the first athlete from Penn State University to be honored as Co [Read More]published June 22, 2010 at 4:12pm EDT
THE LILLY AWARDS — KRISTIN CHENOWETH’S STATEMENT
On Monday night a packed house gathered at Playwrights Horizons people in NYC to celebrate women working in theatre. A bunch of people including playwrights Theresa Rebeck and Marsha Norman who call themselves the “Committee for the Recognition of Outstanding Women in Theater,” pulled together an awards ceremony in a couple of weeks to celebrate the great women working in the theatre who seem to constantly be overlooked at awards time. I’m going to do a longer piece next week for The Women’s Media Center on the awards, but I wanted to share Kristin Chenoweth’s statement on her award. Rob Ashford read her statement because she was under the weather. and#40;Chenoweth was overlooked this year for her performance in Promises, Promises.and#41; I’ve asked Rob to speak in a higher voice so it’s almost like I’m there. It of course kills me that I’m not. I’ve been out 2 shows with a trachea infection. Sucks! You see, when I was first told that I, along with Mary Rodgers [Read More]published May 28, 2010 at 8:17pm EDT
THEATRE WOMEN CREATE AWARDS IN HONOR OF LILLIAN HELLMAN
This year a bunch of very high profile theatre writers and others decided that they were tired of women’s work being constantly unacknowledged, so they created The Lilly awards which will honor 17 women theater artists, as well as Mary Rodgers who will receive a Lifetime Achievement Awards, whose work has been produced in the past year in New York City. They call themselves the The Committee for Recognizing Women in Theater and#40;how much do you love that name?and#41; and include Julie Crosby, John Eisner, Gary Garrison, Tina Howe, Julia Jordan, Marsha Norman, Theresa Rebeck, Susan Rose, Tim Sanford and the Dramatists Guild of America which was created “out of a desire to celebrate the work of outstanding, successful and up-and-coming women playwrights, directors, designers and advocates in the theater.” They named the award for the amazing Lillian Hellman and#40;if you have not read any of her plays, you mustand#41; and here is one reason why this honor is most appropriate for Hellma [Read More]published May 21, 2010 at 5:17pm EDT
OBAMA WELCOMES UCONN WOMEN’S TEAM TO WHITE HOUSE
President Barack Obama welcomed the University of Connecticut’s national champion women’s basketball team to the White House Monday, and it was a reunion for many of the players and the Prez. The UConn women won their second straight NCAA championship earlier this year, prompting the repeat invite to the White House. It was the seventh title for the program. The team, which just completed its second consecutive undefeated season, has not lost a game since Obama was elected president. Obama went so far as to call them the best team in all of sports last year, “by far.” During their trip to the White House last year, Obama invited the team for an impromptu basketball shooting contest on the White House basketball court, which the president won. No word if a rematch was planned for this year. As he did at their last meeting, Obama mentioned he is thrilled his two athletic daughters have role models like the UConn players. “So, as your president, I commend you for s [Read More]published May 18, 2010 at 4:31pm EDT