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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...
Top Ten Canadian Doubles Star Gaby Dabrowski Joins EcoAthletes Champions Squad
A life-long lover and appreciator of the environment, Canadian doubles ace Gaby Dabrowski came to her interest in climate change recently. "It's only been within the past several years where I feel I've made any positive strides towards reducing my carbon footprint,"...
Dave Hampton, Ex British National Team Rower, Co-Founder of Champions For Earth, Joins EcoAthletes Champions Team
World class rowers must bring heaping helpings of tenacity, resilience and focus to help them overcome the ever-present bouts of suffering and fatigue to eventually get a winning result. Dave Hampton, who was a member of the British national team back in the 80s, has...
English Cricketer Joe Cooke Adds EcoAthletes Champion to His Resume
Joe Cooke is an up-and-coming batsman for Cardiff, Wales-based Glamorgan in the top-flight of English County cricket. His career plan includes to someday make the English National Team and play in a Cricket World Cup. He also plans to use his platform to make a...
Ex-UVA Hoopster Justice Bartley Becomes Basketball’s First EcoAthletes Champion
Justice Bartley, who just became the first ex-basketball player to join the EcoAthletes Champions roster, knows that leading the #ClimateComeback will be hard work. That's just fine with Bartley, as he is very familiar with overcoming obstacles. The 6' 5" guard walked...