by Developer | Apr 15, 2021 | Champions, New Athlete, News
Mike Völlmin knows that making serious progress on climate change will not be easy. But the defenseman for Genève-Servette HC of the top ice hockey league in Switzerland by way of Wilmington, North Carolina is used to challenges. “Growing up in Wilmington,...
by ecoathletes2020 | Apr 6, 2021 | Champions, New Athlete, News
Napheesa Collier may not be the flashiest player you will every see on the basketball court; she is the type of hard working player who simply does whatever it takes for her team to win. She’ll grab a key offensive rebound to keep a possession alive, can score...
by ecoathletes2020 | Mar 9, 2021 | Champions, New Athlete, News
Phoebe Champion has been an EcoAthlete since her childhood in the San Francisco Bay Area. ECO: Phoebe and her three sisters gained an appreciation for animals and the environment from a young age, became vegetarians during grammar school. “My sister Laurel did a...
by ecoathletes2020 | Feb 15, 2021 | Champions, New Athlete, News
Defender Zoe Morse had an eventful rookie year in the NWSL, as her Chicago Red Stars made it to the title match, falling 2-0 to the Houston Dash. The University of Virginia grad is looking to up her game to help her club take that very difficult next step, which means...
by ecoathletes2020 | Feb 4, 2021 | Champions, New Athlete, News
World class cyclist Loren Rowney had a powerful first-hand view of the impacts of climate change on her native Australia. “Having visited the Great Barrier Reef in 1998 & 1999 as a child and then again as an in 2014, I saw first hand the effects of climate...
by ecoathletes2020 | Dec 21, 2020 | Champions, New Athlete, News
By Magdalena Pistorius, Translated from the French by Daniel Eck In an exclusive interview with EURACTIV France, Arianna Criscione, goalkeeper and women’s sponsorship manager at Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), talks about her green commitments. While she is an active...