Today, Women in Sports Tech, Inc. (WiST) announced that they have awarded a record 15 summer fellowships to female students from Harvard, University of North Carolina, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of San Francisco to name a few. These fellowships are in the form of $5,000 grants for students to pursue summer projects in sports technology. This year’s total number of awards has nearly quadrupled from 2019, when WiST gave out four awards.

Catapult is excited to announce an industry-first partnership with the organisation Women in Sports Tech (WiST) to propel diversity within Catapult and the sports technology industry as a whole.

At the Hashtag Sports Conference in NYC on June 26, Women in Sports Tech, together with NIKE, hosted a panel featuring WiST Board and Advisory Members who shared their journeys navigating the world of sports, technology and innovation. Addressing the Next Gen conference attendees–a room packed with young sports and tech professionals–the broad discussion touched upon sponsorship, events, marketing and human capital.

Women in Sports Tech, Inc. (WiST) announces 2019 WiST Fellows, female students who will receive funding in the form of $5,000 grants to support their summer projects working in sports technology. They will work with organizations including global running shoe brand Brooks Running, a leading sports industry intelligence firm Turnkey Intelligence, the U.S. Army Special Operations Forces and the sports tech startup called Learn To Win founded by two Stanford Graduate School of Business students.

WiST VIP event held at Cambria Gallery in San Francisco hosted by Silicon Valley Bank, January 23, 2019. Theme for conversation was around best practices for diversity and inclusion initiatives at Nike and the NBA. Guest panelists were WiST board member Jarvis Sam, head of Diversity and Talent Recruiting at Nike and Oris Stuart, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for the NBA, moderated by WiST founder and board co-chair Marilou McFarlane.

On this episode of the SportTechie Podcast with Bram Weinstein, Marilou McFarlane, Women in Sports Tech (WiST) Co-Founder, discusses her mission to provide resources and avenues for women to succeed in sports technology. WiST wants to become an organization that brings together companies, executives, young professionals, and students who have a passion for new technologies that are impacting the sports industry.

On this episode of the SportTechie Podcast with Bram Weinstein, Marilou McFarlane, Women in Sports Tech (WiST) Co-Founder, discusses her mission to provide resources and avenues for women to succeed in sports technology. WiST wants to become an organization that brings together companies, executives, young professionals, and students who have a passion for new technologies that are impacting the sports industry.

As a veteran executive of several sports technology companies, both startup and established, Marilou McFarlane would go weeks on end of business meetings without seeing another woman. She said that experience hasn’t been personally problematic, per se, but the realization was striking and the homogeny outdated. Wanting to empower more women to seek out sports tech as a career path, McFarlane, currently an adviser to Shotzoom and performance tech consultant to NCAA teams, has teamed with Deborah Stroman, the director of the Center of Sport Business at the University of North Carolina, to co-found a new nonprofit, Women in Sports Tech.

Women in Sports Tech (WiST) announces its first effort to empower female college students with a fully-funded internship at a sports tech company in the U.S. in the summer of 2018.

Women in Sports Tech (WiST) launches as the leading organization to bring together companies, their executives, young professionals, and students who share a passion for innovative technologies that impact success throughout the business of sport.