Roosevelt’s Women’s Sports in the past three years has accomplished impressive things and grown immensely, the Roosevelt Volleyball program has expanded from 3 teams to 5. Creating a C squad, 9B and 9A. The girls soccer program and Softball program added another team. In the past year Roosevelt added their own girls flag football team and in the fall of 2025 Roosevelt worked with other Minneapolis schools to create a dance team. In 2023 the Teddies Girls Basketball team went to state and competed. This past fall the Girls Volleyball team played for conference champions and Roosevelt Girls Softball joined with South to grow their roster.

Speaking with Flanders Roosevelt’s Athletic Director he shares how he has watched the women sports at Roosevelt during his time here. “In general I feel like the female population at Roosevelt are taking their athletic careers just a bit more seriously because they have seen the future successes it can bring, not even necessarily in athletics but even just becoming a good and smart person all around and learning how to be a team player.”

“The Girls Basketball team that went to state really grew into and earned that, they were tested and faced a lot of challenges. It became a good lesson that our current girls basketball team will have to learn from this season.”

“I have daughters Lila, so women’s sports and how women are treated in that environment always has been and always will be in the forefront of my mind, and just making sure our girls feel like they have the opportunities they deserve and the experiences they want.”

Roosevelt also has the Athena Award which is presented to one outstanding female senior athlete based on excellence in individual or for participation and leadership in team sports.The Athena award has been present in the Roosevelt community since 1973 when Mary Loberg was the first woman inducted. For the past three years Ana Walker, Cady Davis, and Ava Maly have been the recipients, the award is nominated by coaches and voted on by peers.

Over the past 3 years women’s sports has reached new heights nationally as well. The campaign “Everyone watches women’s sports” was coined in December of 2023 by the company Togetherx. It was created by athletes Sue Bird, Alex Morgan, Simone Manuel and Chloe Kim in response to a public claim saying “no one watches women’s sports.” The shirt gained significant popularity after South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley wore it in January 2024, followed by other celebrities and athletes. 

Since then the world of women’s sports has changed for the better. In 2023 Nebraska volleyball set the record for attendance with 92,003 fans present hosted in the Nebraska football stadium when they played and swept Omaha.

Indiana Fever who recently drafted Caitlin Clark drew 1.3million viewers in their game versus Brazil’s national team 

The past NCAA championship in 2024 between Iowa and South Carolina drew in 18.9 million viewers beating the men’s final four by four million and was the first time in history that the women program outperformed the men’s

During the 2025-2026 NCAA Women’s Volleyball Season multiple matches have been sold out, mainly showcasing the Huskers who finished their BIG 10 season 39-0 and are now heading into the tournament.

Women Sports will not stop growing nationally and locally, seeing what women’s sports has done in the past three years gives hope to the future and the heights that women will be able to reach.