Not a single women’s championship team has made a solo visit to the White House under Trump, although several women’s teams participated in an event in 2017 during which Trump celebrated numerous men’s and women’s college champions in nonrevenue sports. “Where are the women’s teams?” USA Today columnist Christine Brennan, who has written extensively about women’s sports, said in an interview. “The White House sent the invitation out from their end, and we helped coordinate things,” a spokesman for Hoeven said. The Lynx made three trips to the White House during the Obama era and the Storm made two. Every women’s college basketball champion was invited to the White House since 1983 before Trump took office, spanning five presidents.

Source: Washington Post March 04, 2019 22:30 UTC