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Where To Watch Women’s Pro Sports on TV
Where To Watch Women’s Pro Sports on TV

Want to watch women’s pro sports but not sure where to begin? Here’s where you can see games for the top five women’s leagues in the United States!

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LATEST FEATURE

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Breaking the Ice: Inside the World of ACHA Women’s Hockey
Breaking the Ice: Inside the World of ACHA Women’s Hockey

What makes ACHA hockey different from NCAA hockey, and why are more and more collegiate athletes choosing it as an opportunity to play competitive hockey?

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The Photographer’s Angle: Sports Are Supposed To Be Fun
The Photographer’s Angle: Sports Are Supposed To Be Fun

“I've seen so much emphasis placed on winning in college sports and at the levels below them that I sometimes wonder when we lost sight of what sports are supposed to offer in the first place.”

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“I Can Do That. I WILL Do That.”: Nadia Zamoida on Finding Her Place in Sports Photography
“I Can Do That. I WILL Do That.”: Nadia Zamoida on Finding Her Place in Sports Photography

“I came into this to, yes, make the athletes I work with happy, but I was also doing this to make myself happy, to allow myself to be creative, and to make a mark on the sports world with my work.”

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Story in Photos: Providence College Women’s Hockey Wins Home Opener; Shuts Out Sacred Heart 3-0
Story in Photos: Providence College Women’s Hockey Wins Home Opener; Shuts Out Sacred Heart 3-0

Freshman Mallory Hartl picks up her first college shutout

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SPOTLIGHT FEATURE

Goodbye, Soccer: By Emmalynn Schnitzer

It’s been 18 years or so, and suddenly, on a random Tuesday in October, at 8:30 pm, my life was forever changed. How do you live without something you don’t remember living without?

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BUILDING WOMEN’S SPORTS

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Breaking the Ice: Inside the World of ACHA Women’s Hockey
Breaking the Ice: Inside the World of ACHA Women’s Hockey

What makes ACHA hockey different from NCAA hockey, and why are more and more collegiate athletes choosing it as an opportunity to play competitive hockey?

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Hayley Kelleher is Reimagining Hockey Safety with Slice Guard
Hayley Kelleher is Reimagining Hockey Safety with Slice Guard

What began as a classroom assignment has become one of the most ambitious safety innovations in hockey. Union College forward Hayley Kelleher shares the story behind Slice Guard, from entrepreneurship competitions and prototype development to building a company with one goal: making the game safer for players at every level.

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Finally a League of Their Own
Finally a League of Their Own

While the Women's Professional Baseball League is making history by becoming the first professional women's baseball league in the United States since 1954, its impact reaches far beyond the inaugural season. For many players, the league represents something generations of women have never had—a place to continue playing the sport they love at the professional level.

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From Uncertainty to Opportunity: The Rise of RI Rogues FC
From Uncertainty to Opportunity: The Rise of RI Rogues FC

When the RI Reds FC folded, soccer player Shannen Pelletier found herself facing a difficult question: what would happen to women's semi-professional soccer in Rhode Island?

She waited for someone else to step forward. Eventually, she realized no one was coming. "I had only two choices," Pelletier said. "Step up and build it myself, or accept that semi-professional women's soccer in Rhode Island was over."

She could not accept that.

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