Women sport news

The 2008 season saw two 2-time Champions, one of the new Asian Invasion team members, one European phenom and one first time winner (some say a long time coming!) Allison Fisher proved she’s still got the right stuff to compete after a long and successful career in billiards, while Kelly Fisher came on strong as one successor to Allison’s reign.

USA Water Ski and the United States Hydrofoil Association are pleased to announce that the nation’s top hydrofoil athletes will be returning to Windsor, Colo., July 16-19, to compete in the third annual United States Hydrofoil Association (USHA) Nationals.

A Hertfordshire-based netball club has been celebrating after picking up a major award at a glittering ceremony.

The Management Committee of the World Squash Federation, led by its new President N Ramachandran, has set up a top level task force to lead the sports bid to join the Olympic Games programme in 2016.

The 16th staging of the Womens World Team Squash Championship earlier this month in Cairo has been declared a great success by Assem Khalifa, the newly-elected President of the Egyptian Squash Federation.

Last edition of the EHF CL NEWSLETTER in 2008 with all the information on the restart of the Womens CL on 2 January.

MOSCOW (EuroLeague Women) - Umana Reyer already had first-place sewn up but they still fought hard before falling at CSKA Moscow on Tuesday in the EuroLeague Women.

Sailing scored a major coup as its television coverage of the Beijing Olympic Games was recognized as The Best Sports Coverage by the Host Broadcaster at the International Olympic Committees (IOC) Olympic Golden Rings ceremony, held last night (16 December) in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Following the 1st Summer Youth Olympic Games in Singapore in 2010, Innsbruck (AUT) will be responsible for staging the 1st Winter Youth Olympic Games.

The U.S. Snowboarding halfpipe roster just got a little more stacked with talent with the announcement that Olympic gold medalist Kelly Clark (West Dover, VT) would be joining its ranks.

England Athletics today welcomed the news that the sport in England is to receive £20.46million in funding over the next four years.

Northern Thunder narrowly defeated visitors Leeds Carnegie in an encounter that came down to the wire in Bury tonight. The Sky Sports televised match certainly gave viewers a thrilling game to watch.

With the conclusion of the double-gender tournaments played in Managua, Nicaragua, five NORCECA teams have now qualified for the third round of the 2010 FIVB Volleyball World Championships. photo FIVB

Less than four months after leading the U.S. Men’s Olympic Volleyball Team to a gold medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand) has accepted the head coach position of the U.S. Women’s National Team for the 2009-2012 Olympic quadrennial, according to USA Volleyball Chief Executive Officer Doug Beal.

The England Womens team to take on the Ireland Presidents XV at St. Marys RFC in Dublin on Saturday December 20th, kick-off 230pm, has today been announced.

Still no surf on offer at Honolua Bay today, prompting Billabong Pro Maui event organizers to call the fifth straight lay day. photo ASP Cestari Covered Images

Japan’s Mao Asada took over the No. 1 spot in ladies after her win at the Grand Prix Final in Goyang City, Republic of Korea; Chinese pairs teams Dan Zhang and Hao Zhang, and Qing Pang and Jian Tong closing the gap on No. 1 Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy; and U.S. ice dancing team Meryl Davis and Charlie White moving up three spots to No. 4 after earning the bronze in Korea.

The Celtic Dragons came away with a win in Cardiff tonight, beating Glasgow Wildcats 39-30. Mavericks defeated Team Northumbria tonight 45-36 in Hatfield.

The matches were played in two groups of six teams and one group of five teams in NED, MNE and POL. The first ranked team of each group qualified for the play-off matches (qualification phase 2) taking place on 6/7 June and 13/14 June 2009.

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has announced that it is expanding women’s county cricket even further in 2009 with the inclusion of Ireland into the new-look LV Women’s County Championship, as well as the introduction of an ECB Women’s Twenty20 Cup.

The best of the best in women’s golf will once again be battling it out on the fairways and greens of the Tanah Merah Country Club, from the 5th till the 8th of March 2009.

SYDNEY (National team) - Basketball Australia is proud to announce that Carrie Graf has been appointed Head Coach of the World Champion Australian women\\\\\\\'s basketball team. photo FIBA

The number of adults in England who regularly play sport has risen by more than half a million over the past two years, according to new research.

TeamBath’s netballers opened up a two-point lead at the top of the Co-operative Superleague table with a 59-48 win at Loughborough tonight (Saturday) – their biggest win at Loughborough in the Superleague.

Englands Jenny Duncalf recorded one of the best wins of her career when she upset Australias top seed Rachael Grinham in the final of the Womens Sharm El Sheikh Open to clinch the $26,200 WISPA World Tour Silver squash event title in South Sinai, Egypt. photo WISPA

Germany’s Anja Monke grabbed the third round lead at the Dubai Ladies Masters with a four-under-par 68 on the Majlis Course at Emirates Golf Club on Saturday. Final Results attached