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Ice Hockey’s Mike Völlmin, Brings Tenacity, Curiosity to the EcoAthletes Champions Roster
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,...
An Eventful 1st Year for EcoAthletes
We launched EcoAthletes as a nonprofit on April 7, 2020 with the mission "to inspire and coach athletes to lead climate action." Put another way, we exist to find and deploy the Megan Rapinoes, the Colin Kaepernicks of climate change.Despite that first revolution...
Minnesota Lynx Star Napheesa Collier Becomes WNBA’s First EcoAthletes Champion
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 from...
Phoebe Champion, Plant-Based Ex-Water Polo Player Turned Sustainable Wine Exec, Becomes EcoAthletes Champion
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...
Zoe Morse of NWSL’s Chicago Red Stars Brings Her Passion for the Climate Fight to EcoAthletes Champions Roster
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...
Super Bowl LV Host Committee Gives EcoAthletes Champions’ Plant-Based Recipe Book to Its Virtual Green Team
Green Teams — volunteer squads who help fans with recycling, composting and more — have been fixtures at mega-sports events like Super Bowls, Final Fours and MLB All-Star Games for years. Laura Stargel, Sustainability Coordinator for the Super Bowl LV Host Committee,...
Loren Rowney, Aussie Cyclist Bringing Green-Sports to Belgium, Joins EcoAthletes Champions Roster
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 change...
EcoAthletes’ Champion and PSG Goalie Arianna Criscione, Offers Pro-Environmental Message In Euractiv Interview
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...
Open Water Swimmer, Ice Swimmer, Clean Ocean Advocate & Mermaid*, Estonia’s Merle Liivand Adds EcoAthletes Champion to Her Resume
* You read that right: Mermaid. To say Merle (pronounced MYRHH-luh) Liivand is multi-faceted is an understatement. Aside from being a champion open water and ice swimmer, an environmentalist as well as, yes, a mermaid (more on that later), Liivand is also persistent,...
Claudia Galindo, Colombian Beach Volleyball Star and Environmentalist, Becomes First South American EcoAthletes Champion
Claudia Galindo is pushing hard to be part of the first women's beach volleyball duo to represent Colombia at an Olympics next summer in Tokyo, where she would team up with her sister Andrea. The pioneering does not end there for Galindo as she today becomes the first...
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