The sad news came down just a few weeks ago: It Takes a Team, the pioneering project of the Women’s Sports Foundation dedicated to challenging homophobia in sports, has been canceled due to budget cuts.
An educational program founded in 1996, It Takes a Team was based on four powerful facts:
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SPOKANE, Wash. – There couldn’t have been a better way to end the year 2009 for the Gonzaga University women’s basketball team as it claimed a dominant 88-52 victory over visiting UC Santa Barbara Wednesday evening at the McCarthey Athletic Center to close out its non-conference slate. The Bulldogs had five players score in double-figures [...]

The Ball State University women’s basketball team is searching for answers as it heads into Mid-American Conference play after committing 22 turnovers in its 82-67 loss at Butler University Wednesday evening.
The loss for the Cardinals put them at 5-7 as the program now will defend a MAC title for the first time in program history. [...]

As 2010 approaches, WVU Tech women’s basketball coach Jim Fout is breathing a littler easier than he was at this time a year ago.
Following a split of games in a tournament at Pikeville (Ky.) College prior to Christmas, resurgent Tech stands at 9-5. That’s on the heels of a 2-27 campaign in 2008-09. Fout’s not [...]

New Orleans, La. – Sophomore Kiara Evans set a new Blackbirds single-game mark with 15 assists as the Long Island University women’s basketball team earned an 83-62 win over North Dakota at the Tulane DoubleTree Classic. Sophomore Ashley Palmer scored a season-high 25 points to lead a balanced attack for the Blackbirds, as four players [...]

SAN DIEGO – The San Diego State women’s basketball team shot 52.1 percent from the field and had four players score in double-figures to claim its second consecutive Surf `N Slam title with a 66-55 victory over Auburn Wednesday night at Viejas Arena. With the win, SDSU, which defeated No. 4 Texas for the same [...]

The Franklin Pierce women’s basketball team showed Mercy no restraint on the final day of the St. Anselm Holiday Classic.
Second-ranked Franklin Pierce blew out Mercy 87-55 Wednesday to run its record to a spotless 10-0.
The Ravens shot a stellar 50 percent from the field (33-of-66), while locking down Mercy (3-7) on the defensive end. Franklin [...]

Missouri State women’s basketball player Kendra Roberts could make her first appearance as a Lady Bear today after a 21-month wait.
Roberts, who tore the anterior cruciate ligament and sprained the medial collateral ligament in her left knee in a summer game, was cleared by the team doctor this morning. She missed the entire nonconference schedule [...]

The veterans on the Illinois women’s basketball team know what it feels like to dig themselves a hole in the Big Ten standings.
Last season, the Illini lost their first nine conference games and had to claw back to finish ninth in the conference.
This year, expectations were higher, but that wasn’t apparent Monday night, as the [...]

BOSTON – Da’Shena Stevens scored a game-high 21 points and two other Red Storm players reached double digits in scoring as the St. John’s women’s basketball team closed out its non-conference schedule with a 69-53 win over Northeastern at Solomon Court on Tuesday afternoon.
With the win, the Red Storm improves to 12-1 on the year [...]