US Olympic hero Nancy Hogshead launches petition calling for WNBA to restrict gender eligibility

Olympic legend launches petition demanding WNBA protect women’s basketball

Nancy Hogshead, three-time Olympic gold medalist, is throwing her weight behind the fight for women’s sports. The Olympic-level swimmer recently launched a petition urging the WNBA to […]

Olympic legend launches petition demanding WNBA protect women’s basketball · American Wire News

Nancy Hogshead, three-time Olympic gold medalist, is throwing her weight behind the fight for women’s sports. The Olympic-level swimmer recently launched a petition urging the WNBA to ensure that female basketball players have a level playing field by restricting gender eligibility to participate in the league. Now serving as a civil rights lawyer, she is also the founder of Champion Women, which seeks to provide “legal advocacy for girls and wo…

US Olympic hero Nancy Hogshead launches petition calling for WNBA to restrict gender eligibility

Three-time Olympic swimming gold medalist Nancy Hogshead is calling on the WNBA to explicitly restrict player eligibility to biological females.Hogshead recently launched a Change.org petition asking the league to clarify the meaning of "woman" in its eligibility rules. The petition has collected more than 11,000 signatures since its Aug. 14 launch."We’re calling for the WNBA to clarify that its eligibility rules are for women only," Hogshead to…