The day was originally established in remembrance of American Olympic volleyball player Flo Hyman, who passed away suddenly while competing in a volleyball tournament in 1986.

As we celebrate National Girls & Women in Sports Day, we’re taking time to highlight an alarming trend in women’s soccer that was thrust back into the spotlight following heartbreaking news about USWNT star Sam Mewis: the abundance of knee injuries among the world’s best players.

While most top athletes inked their National Letters of Intent (NLI) during December’s early signing period, a few Top 100 prospects are still up for grabs.

According to a Monday report, world soccer’s governing body struck a sponsorship deal with Visit Saudi for July’s Women’s World Cup, significantly upgrading Saudi Arabia's visibility in women’s sports.

An uptick in school-specific streaming services is translating into big wins for athletic departments and increased visibility for women’s sports teams, per a recent report.

Both the AP polls and the women’s and men’s Wooden Award Top 20s — aka the shortlists for Player of the Year — dropped on Monday.

According to a Friday report, the league will award franchises to Utah, San Francisco and Boston — one more market than originally anticipated — and will collect around $100 million in the process.

Two days before taking second place in the X Games halfpipe competition on Saturday, snowboarder Maddie Mastro booked a deal with the candy company centered around a niche winter sport — splitboarding.

While the Canadian Women’s Hockey League (CWHL) was known for its quality of play, the PHF (then National Women’s Hockey League) offered to do what no women’s league had done before: pay its players.

Saturday belonged to the unranked fellas, with seven ranked teams falling to their AP number-less foes.

If Saturday was for the fellas, Sunday was for the sirens of college hoops as the gals sang up six upsets of their own.

WNBA free agents can officially ink deals starting on Wednesday, but one squad already hit the jackpot — two-time MVP Candace Parker announced on Saturday that she plans to sign with the Las Vegas Aces.