Laura Everett has been moonlighting as a sports reporter in Boston, covering women's sports leagues. She's delighted that the NCAA women's tournament is finally having its moment, but says there are profoundly interesting and talented athletes in every women’s league — if only we were looking for them.
Caitlin Clark #22 of the Iowa Hawkeyes celebrates after beating the LSU Tigers 94-87 in the Elite 8 round of the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament at MVP Arena on April 01, 2024 in Albany, New York.
And then, before I got the chance to write about her, she was traded — poof. I’m disappointed I missed my chance with Jacques, but there’s an important lesson for all of us in her story: There are profoundly interesting and talented athletes in every women’s league, if only we were looking for them. When I first started covering local women’s professional sport leagues, I applied for a press pass to cover the Boston Pride, the name of our pro-women’s hockey team at the time. How was it possible that a professional team, that had won a national championship, never got a Duck Boat parade? Imagine the outcry if the Bruins won the Stanley Cup and no one threw them a party. But for the Boston Pride andsaid, “Our problem isn’t attendance or quality of play. It’s visibility and media coverage.
that there is real hunger for more stories about athletes in women’s leagues. During the World Cup last summer, our most liked and shared post was aboutoriginally from Lynn, who played on the Jamaican National Team. We spent all of February amplifying and sometimes excavating stories of Black women athletes from Massachusetts.
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