Four-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles is now the most decorated gymnast in history. At the 2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Stuttgart, Germany on Sunday, Oct. 13, Biles broke a world championship record by winning her 24th and…

This tennis match was one to remember. On Saturday, Naomi Osaka defeated Coco Gauff at the US Open, and the two athlete's post-game moment exemplified true sportsmanship. Osaka and Gauff faced off in a third-round match, a career-first for the two…

The Women's World Cup victory belongs to the USA for the second year in a row. The final score for the World Cup was 2-0 for the U.S. Women's soccer team in its final game against the Netherlands in Lyon, France on Sunday. The team's defeat over the…

In Los Angeles, Jamie Yancovitz trains her students at parks under swaying palm trees; meanwhile, in New York City, Kristen Cabildo trains hers in the backyard of her brownstone apartment. They're two women on two different coasts but with one…

It all started when I woke up on New Year’s Day in 2018, and thought about what I wanted to focus on that year. For me, that was learning Spanish. I’d always wanted to do it throughout my 20s and now in my 30s, but when I woke up this day, all the…

My first sport was actually swimming when I was three years old. I started playing tennis when I was very young as well because I looked up to Gabriela Sabatini and Steffi Graf, all those amazing athletes. But when I got to play soccer on a team…

Basketball players Nneka and Chiney Ogwumike have always supported each other on and off the court — from their very first childhood practice in their Texas hometown, to their current careers playing for WNBA team the Los Angeles Sparks (which makes…

Ibtihaj Muhammad is a trailblazer in every sense of the word. Not only did she win a bronze medal in the 2016 Olympics in Rio for fencing, but she was the first Muslim woman to represent the United States while wearing a hijab. Now, with a Barbie…

Tennis player Monica Puig rose to international stardom when she became the first athlete — of any sport, and any gender — to win the gold medal for Puerto Rico at the 2016 Rio Olympics, beating the then-#2-ranked Angelique Kerber. For Puerto…

For a portion of my childhood I was fluent in no languages, a product of anxiety that was almost physically painful and two languages —English and Spanish — that were constantly jockeying for position in my brain. But what I have always been fluent…