Tag: women in sports

Jenny Cavnar for the Oakland Athletics It’s a historic day, as MLB’s first female primary play-by-play announcer has been hired. NBC Sports Bay Area has hired Jenny Cavnar as the new primary play-by-play voice for the Oakland Athletics. Cavnar will become the first woman to be a primary play-by-play voice in MLB history. “It is…

Becomes first woman to score in HBCU Game Leilani Armenta, the kicker for Jackson State, scored three groundbreaking kicks for extra points as the Tigers defeated Arkansas Pine-Bluff handily on Saturday. Armenta became the first woman to score for an HBCU in an FCS college football game when she kicked a PAT in the second…