Three-time Olympic swimming champion Nancy Hogshead is continuing her advocacy for female athletes while pushing the WNBA to establish clear female-only eligibility rules.
Hogshead was honored with the U.S. Olympians and Paralympians Association’s Dorothy Franey Langkop Ambassador Award for her work supporting athletes and women’s sports.
“It was just really nice to be recognized by my peers,” Hogshead said.
Her petition asking the WNBA to define “woman” as female for eligibility purposes has surpassed 21,000 verified signatures. She said, “We have 520 Olympians and Paralympians that have signed on to our petition. People who are in sport, they want sport to be formally sex-segregated.”
Describing the support she received, Hogshead said, “People came up to me all night long and were saying, ‘Thank you so much for what you’re wearing. Thanks so much for what you’re doing. I have daughters. I have granddaughters.’”
During her speech, she said, “Every girl in this country who gets a team, a scholarship, a locker room, a coach and a fair sport is standing on what we built.”
She added, “My work has been to defend and further those wins, to make sure that women’s sports remain a space for females, to make sure that girls’ and women’s programs are funded the way that the law requires, not the way that’s necessarily convenient, and to hold our movement accountable for abusive coaches and for the safety of our athletes.”
Hogshead concluded, “We didn’t inherit the Olympic dream to keep it for ourselves. We inherited it to pass it on.”
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