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Running with Swagger: Elizabeth Reyes
Elizabeth Reyes is 14 years old and lives in Taos. She is a freshman at Taos High, where she is enrolled in all honors classes and participates in cross country, soccer, track and swimming. Why I...
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Breaking Records with Swagger: Amanda Mondragon
Amanda is 18 and a senior at Taos High School. She spent years living in Wyoming, before moving to Taos, New Mexico. She will start work to be a certified nurse assistant (CNA) this...
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Madrone Matysiak: Expressing Yourself through Movement
Madrone Matysiak is 17. She is a dancer, performer, and artist. Madrone lives in Taos on the weekends and in Santa Fe in a dorm during the week, while attending New Mexico School for the Arts, a...
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Swagger on a Mountain Bike
Been thinking about getting out on your bike? Next up in our series on Girls and Women who Swagger in the Outdoors and Sports is Willa Williford, mountain bike racer. Willa tells us why she loves to...
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Healing Power of Nature: Women’s Wilderness Institute
“The wilderness is healing and forgiving, if you’ve been hurt or feel awful or just need to BE; it always welcomes you. I feel safer in the wilderness than in a parking lot – there are snakes and...
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Swagger on the Slopes: Hannah Kearney, Olympic Skier
Hannah Kearney is an Olympic mogul skier. If you have ever tried to ski moguls – those big, often icy bumps on the ski run – you know that it takes lots of confidence and courage to compete in this...
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Ski Jump Swagger: Sarah Hendrickson
Did you know that women were not allowed to compete in the ski jump at the Olympic Games until 2014, although men had been competing in the ski jump since 1924? American Sarah Hendrickson was the first...
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Update on Swagger Books
When I was a young project manager building affordable housing, I needed to find a way to be both my authentic self and also to get the respect of the construction management team I was working with. I...
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Dr. Jen Welter: Breaking Barriers in Professional Football
Dr. Jen Welter made history by becoming the first female coach in the NFL when she was hired this summer by the Arizona Cardinals. She is a linebackers coach. Dr. Jen has a doctorate in...
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Sage Donnelly: Freestyle Kayaking Junior Champion
Sage Donnelly has been kayaking since she was very young. Her training and perseverance has paid off and this year she won the Freestyle World Junior Championships in Canada. Here is the update on...
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The Girl’s Guide to Swagger: Growing and Evolving
March is Women’s History Month and at the beginning of the month we celebrated International Women’s Day. All month, you will hear about the accomplishments of women. International Women’s Day was...
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Summer Olympics are Coming
The Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro begin on August 5 and run through August 27. The torch is already on its way to Rio. It left Greece on April 27 and arrived in Brazil on May 3. The torch is now...
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Swaggering in Sports
The Olympics are almost here! The games begin on August 5. This year the US Olympic team has more women than men, for only the second time in history. Of the 555 athletes who will compete at the games...
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Women to Watch at the Olympics and Swagger
Will you be watching the Olympics when they begin tomorrow, Friday – August 5? There will be pageantry and then the games begin! All of the athletes at the Olympics represent the best talent of their...
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Women Deserve Credit When They Win
Women have been competing in the Olympics for more than 100 years. They competed for the first time in the 1900 Paris Olympics. According to www.olympic.org of 997 athletes, 22 were women. They...
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A Team that looks like US and building confidence
The US women’s gymnastic team has won the all around gold medal team competition. Simone Biles has won her fourth gold medal and is being called the greatest gymnast of our time and perhaps all time....
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What holds us back from trying new sports?
This is part of a continuing series women and confidence in sports; excerpts from The Girl’s Guide to Swagger in the Outdoors and Sports – continued from this post. What holds us back?...
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