“If you’re not watching women’s sports, you’re truly missing out.” This message is what Caitlin Clark sent out about women's sports after she received the Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year award for the Class of 2023. Born January 22, 2002, Clark has grown up and proved herself to be the best college basketball player in the country. Caitlin Clark, a young woman who is breaking records with her talents, is positively inspiring girls and boys everywhere. Clark has made a positive impact in women's sports by breaking hard and almost unachievable records, creating a foundation that can help uplift and improve the lives of youth and communities through nutrition, sports, and education, and helping support other foundations. One way Caitlin Clark …show more content…
Outside of basketball, Clark has donated and hosted events for many foundations that can help the needy. Caitlin Clark hosted a donation event at the Coralville Community Food Pantry. She influenced many people from Coralville and helped raise awareness and money for hunger worldwide (The Daily Iowan). This shows that Clark is willing to give her time to host and give to foundations that help the needy. When she does this, she motivates others to come out and donate to help foundations. Caitlin Clark is inspiring people every day by hosting and donating. Caitlin Clark has become an idol to many people and is helping improve the interest in women's sports. She has become a record-setting role model with many people replaying her amazing rebounds, passes, and shots. Throughout her basketball career, Clark has been breaking many records with her basketball skills and is making an impact by inspiring girls and boys. Clark has inspired people from everywhere by breaking records, creating a foundation that can help uplift and improve the lives of youth and communities through nutrition, sports, and education, and hosting foundation events to help the
She is a remarkable role model for girls everywhere wanting to play basketball. She started
Women have faced an uphill battle throughout the history of sports whether it is to be able to compete in sports, to attain equal funding for programs, to have access to facilities, or a number of other obstacles that have been thrown in their ways. Women have had to organize and administer their own sports structure rather than compete within the men's structure that existed. The sheer strength and determination of many women sports heroes is what propels women's sport to keep going. One theme that has predominantly surfaced in this fight though is the merging of women's programs with men's, oftentimes only when they are successful enough to stand alone on their own.
...ennis, basketball, soccer, and martial arts—have come from the days of cheerleading and synchronized swimming when she was growing up in the ’70s.” Disparities in media coverage and over-sexualized female athletes on magazine covers is something that needs to come to an end because of its effects on both male and female viewers, young and old, athletes and non-athletes. Both female and male athletics influence young people and shape their personality and morals as they mature. Retired WNBA player, Lisa Leslie credits her participation in basketball with shaping her character, as well as her career. “Sports can also help teenagers during an awkward time in their development.” (“Women’s Athletics: A Battle For Respect”). The solution is to come together as a society and identify how to balance the respect for female and male athletes in the media.
The discrepancies in media coverage in coverage of female and children athletics have large gaps, but are gaining momentum in sharing equality. Major athletic leagues such as the NBA and FIFA World Cup have wide gaps in marketing and ratings for their male and female athletes. Children are future athletes and superstars, but as funding and coverage in athletics caters to the males, women are breaking the barriers to being in the spotlight of sport. Both genders contribute equally to athletics, and challenge the each other to accept new ideas and change. The sports world that has a single gender dominating the media is unjust.
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In 1970 only 1 in 27 girls participated in high school sports, today that ratio is 1 in 3. Sports are a very important part of the American society. Within sports, heroes are made, goals are set and dreams are lived. The media makes all these things possible by creating publicity for the rising stars of today. Within society today, the media has downplayed the role of the woman within sports.
Hightower, Kyle. "Female Athletes Pushing the Boundaries of Sports." Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL). 02 Jul. 2005: n.p. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 23 Apr. 2014.
Promoting Women’s Sports “It doesn’t matter if you are a woman or a man, the important thing is your determination,” race car driver Milka Duno proudly stated when being represented as a CNN woman. As women recognition continues to grow since the past, it still does not appear to be promoted enough. The promotion of women’s sports needs to be focused on due to inspiration passed on, gender equality, and the gratitude of women and their dedication to sports.
Women sports have come a long way, since the days when women were only allowed to watch. “The past three decades have witnessed a steady growth in women's sports programs in America along with a remarkable increase in the number of women athletes (Daniel Frankl 2)” From an early age women were thought to be “Lady Like”; they are told not to get all sweaty and dirty. Over 200 years later since Maud Watson stepped on the tennis courts of Wimbledon (Sports Media digest 3); women now compete in all types and levels of sports from softball to National racing. Soccer fans saw Mia Hamm become the face of Women’s soccer around the world , Venus and Serena Williams are two of the most popular figures in tennis, and Indy car racing had their first woman racer, Danika Patrick. With all the fame generated by these women in their respective sports, they still don’t receive the same compensation as the men in their respective sports fields. Venus Williams, net worth is 60 million dollars; 27 million came from playing tennis (celebritynetworth 4). Her sister, Serena Williams has a tennis...
Clark, a Division I basketball player for Iowa State, first took the stage in the 2023 March Madness Tournament and displayed her long-distance shooting ability and crafty playmaking. Moreover, Michael Rosenberg, a senior writer for Sports Illustrated, reports that, “she scored 41 points in the Elite Eight and 41 more in an upset of the nation’s best team, South Carolina, but if you only looked at the box scores, you got the plot but missed the movie.” Caitlin Clark was the first to record back-to-back 40-point games in the March Madness Tournament, with an upset victory against an undefeated South Carolina team to reach the championship game. Rosenberg’s point is to exclaim that watching Caitlin Clark’s stats isn’t enough, and to know what true entertainment is by watching her perform. Although the Iowa Hawkeyes came up short in the championship game, Clark broke scoring records, viewership records, and left fans in awe through her captivating performances.
Professional women's sports haven't been around too long, although it does have an extensive history and root system. In 1865, Vasser became one of the first women colleges in the United States. Within the safe boundaries of campus and away from the curious eyes of men, w...
“The odds of a high school basketball player making it to the “next level” to play college basketball (DI, II, or III) is slim. In fact, only 3.4% of high school players go on to play college basketball. Taking it even further, only 1.2% of college basketball players go on to get drafted in the NBA” (Winters, 2016). There are two types of players in the game. There are the kids who play basketball because they are athletic, and all they are seeking to gain is the recognition and awards. They want to be known. Those players are self-centered, they do not play for the team, and generally don’t play because they love the game. These are the types of players who don’t usually go on to play at the next level. On the other hand, there are the players that absolutely dedicate their life to the game of basketball just because they love the game. That is what coaches are looking for in a player, and that is the kind of player I am striving to be.
Throughout history, it is easy to recognize how African Americans have triumphed in sports. It is also enlightening and empowering to see and recognize the challenges that women faced in the past with achieving recognition in sports as compared to that of men.
Challenges appear to be part of the human experience. In the course of history, very little has come easily. The progress that women have made in sport in the United States over the course of the last 100 years seems remarkable for the amount achieved in so little time. In relation to the other advances made in this century, including men's sport, that achievement dims. While women have made great advances, they haven't, in comparison, come that far. It would appear, from the outside, that men's sport will forever have all of the advantages, all of the rewards, all of the prestige, while women's sport is left to perpetual inequality.
She has a contract with sportswear manufacturer Reebok International Inc. that pays her $40 million over five years. This may seem like a step forward for womankind, but others view it as a business deal for more money than one will ever need. The disparity between hard working citizens and sporting legends leads us to question their contribution to society. Many ‘heroes’ are created mostly because of sporting prowess. Yet, there are some things that are more significant than Olympic glory, contract negotiations and the score of the game.