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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...
Soccer’s Lauren ‘Lu’ Barnes Greens the OL Reign, Becomes Latest EcoAthletes Champion
Lauren "Lu" Barnes is a very busy woman these days. She is the captain of the Tacoma, Washington-based Olympique (OL) Reign of the NWSL and also plays for Kristianstads DFF in the Swedish League, the Damallvsvenskan. And thanks to Barnes' passion for a healthy...
Elizabeth Beisel, U.S. Olympic Swimming Medalist and Healthy Oceans Activist, Becomes EcoAthletes Champion
Elizabeth Beisel brought a powerful combination of talent, passion, and perseverance to a swimming career that saw the Rhode Island native make the first of her three U.S. Olympic teams at age 15, culminating in silver and bronze medals at the 2012 London Games....
Seyi Smith, Canadian Winter & Summer Olympian, Founder of Racing to Zero, Brings Broad Skill Set to EcoAthletes Champions Team
To say Seyi (pronounced "SHAY") Smith is multi-talented is an understatement. Smith was part of Canada's 4x100m relay team at the 2012 London Olympics that finished in the bronze medal position behind Jamaica and the United States, only to be later disqualified for a...