Deanna Miyauchi

The #WELeague has released its 24-25 season summary. It's all in Japanese but lots of good insight into the league's successes and how it's trying to build.

🧵 of highlights follows:

#woso #womensfootball #womenssoccer

Could this be a new marketing opportunity for condiment companies? 😉

Impressed to see the CWHL reference! That’s context not a lot of people covering the game would have.

Congrats WPHS and all the new PWHL Seattle fans! 🥅🏒👏

Nils Nielsen's vision for Nadeshiko Japan comes to life at SheBelieves Cup The remarkable achievement has brought about a renewed optimism among the fanbase, as Japan seems ready to turn the page after years of perceived underperformance.

🇯🇵 🏆 The triumph at #SheBelieves is commendable in itself, but what did it tell us about Nielsen’s vision for Nadeshiko Japan?

✍️ In my latest for @JapanTimes.co.jp I examine the key takeaways from a superbly well managed campaign.

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We’re starting to see different sentiments emerging though. I was proud of the signature style women developed since moving away from the 80s badassery. Both have merits but also different implications for injuries, parent support, youth participation, perceptions & marketability.

The PWHL hasn’t reached the 80s style of women’s full contact hitting & fighting yet (my prime) but they probably shouldn’t let it go that far. If profitability, fan support & healthy players are objectives that is.

The PWHL looks good on you, Edmonton!!

It’s finally GAME DAY! 🏒🥅 Been waiting months for this & the 18,000+ sold out Rogers Place is going to be wild!

So excited for this & judging from chatter, there’ll probably be generations of Edmonton Chimos in the house. Players from the barnstorming 1970s to the CWHL in the 2010s. We’ll all be watching our dreams unfold at Rogers Place today!

Welcome to Edmonton!! Special greetings to Carla MacLeod, Emerance Maschmeyer, Danielle Serdachny & Stephanie Markowski. Super excited to have them come home to the Edmonton region this way. Go Charge! 💪

Thanks, I love Carla MacLeod and will look for that! As an aside, I found out my teammate Sharon purchased two Charge season tickets last year just to support the team & travelled from Edmonton a few times to see games!

🙌 I’ve missed Ottawa since moving back west in 1990. That’s a big reason the Charge has been my team from the start! Excited to watch them live at Sunday’s #PWHL Takeover Tour game with some former Edmonton Chimos 🏆teammates. We are many—1970s to 2010s. BTW, Shirley Cameron for the 🇨🇦HHOF!! 🏒 🥅

This is exciting! Wonder if we’ll be able to watch broadcasts or streams in North America 🤔

The PWHL graphics and branding in the Takeover Tour arenas have been spectacular! 👏👏👏

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The Oldest Living Olympic Champion Survived the Holocaust, WWII, and Now the Pandemic Ágnes Keleti—who celebrated her 100th birthday this year—has a message for us all: Keep working.

The legendary Ágnes Keleti 🇭🇺, who survived the Holocaust and went on to win five Olympic titles during the 1950s, has died a week shy of her 104th birthday. May she rest in peace. 🕊️

This team’s inspirational story had waited to be told for decades. It found a passionate chronicler in Dr. James. Zoom in on the first para and you’ll want more 😉

Thanks for surfacing this piece of CWHL & women’s hockey lore. Really felt for her then but delighted she gets to experience the place in a much better way today 😊

The key word here is exclusive. All Netflix, no TV 🚫 📺

Promotions for Meg Linehan and Emily Olsen | The New York Times Company

I guess I'm officially on here now. Excited to share that I'm moving into the role of Head of Global Women's Soccer at @theathletic.bsky.social.

I'll spare you the corporate speak, but I look forward to growing our coverage and community alike. www.nytco.com/press/promot...

The point made in the article about the myriad impacts of venue ownership and/or primary tenancy has parallels across other women’s pro sports & in different ways at amateur levels #womenssports

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The NWSL championship had TWICE as many viewers as the MLS championship!

Women's sports are sprinting ahead of men's sports.
In the future, no one will believe the nonsense the trolls were saying in the early 21st century!

Many think that women’s hockey has been no contact but it was always allowed in battling for the puck—hitting is new. As part of an earlier generation who played body checking, I’m watching the pendulum swing back with reservations. I hope the free flowing style of hockey that women developed stays.

Lopusanova added a touch of spice to her 4 goal, 1 assist total. Just 16 years of age & already a 2026 Wisconsin commit 😎

🇨🇦 ATHLETE OF THE YEAR

Here’s the moment Summer McIntosh received the phone call letting her know she’s the Northern Star winner as Canada’s athlete of the year.

And she wins it on the night she broke the world record for gold and then won bronze with her team on the relay.

Let’s go Brazil!! ✈️ ⚽️

The franchises for the new Women’s Lacrosse League were unveiled today:

Boston Guard
California Palms
Maryland Charm
New York Charging

ATTN: CANADA SPORTS TYPES:

I've put together an initial Canadian Sports Media Starter pack.

If you are not here, please know it's nothing personal. Just my best attempt at an initial run. I'll keep updating the list.

This is Part I and there will def. be a Part 2.

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