{"id":262,"date":"2025-04-02T03:39:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T03:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalwriting.cornellcollege.edu\/empowhersports\/?p=262"},"modified":"2025-04-08T20:59:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T20:59:12","slug":"breaking-the-barriers-through-nil-womens-college-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalwriting.cornellcollege.edu\/empowhersports\/2025\/04\/02\/breaking-the-barriers-through-nil-womens-college-athletics\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking The Barriers Through NIL: Womens College Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalwriting.cornellcollege.edu\/empowhersports\/wp-content\/uploads\/39\/2025\/04\/Article-2-Photo-3-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-279\" style=\"width:493px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalwriting.cornellcollege.edu\/empowhersports\/wp-content\/uploads\/39\/2025\/04\/Article-2-Photo-3-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/digitalwriting.cornellcollege.edu\/empowhersports\/wp-content\/uploads\/39\/2025\/04\/Article-2-Photo-3-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/digitalwriting.cornellcollege.edu\/empowhersports\/wp-content\/uploads\/39\/2025\/04\/Article-2-Photo-3-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/digitalwriting.cornellcollege.edu\/empowhersports\/wp-content\/uploads\/39\/2025\/04\/Article-2-Photo-3-1.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For many years, male athletics have been the sole face of athletics overall. They were always the face shown in the media, the highest paid players. Which provided with better opportunities because they were being highlighted in the media. With name, images, and likeliness (NIL) women&#8217;s sports are starting to break these barriers. NIL has opened many opportunities for all female athletes to make larger impacts. NIL has allowed women&#8217;s athletes to create their own brand name for who they are as an athlete. Allowing more financial opportunities, and being known to a wider audience through media or sponsors.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Growth For Women&#8217;s Sports: <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-pale-pink-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-964b16ad2a1eda748e8dadf9841260f8\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lsusports.net\/sports\/gm\/roster\/player\/olivia-dunne\/\">Livvy Dunne: LSU Women&#8217;s Gymnastics<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalwriting.cornellcollege.edu\/empowhersports\/wp-content\/uploads\/39\/2025\/04\/img_1964-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalwriting.cornellcollege.edu\/empowhersports\/wp-content\/uploads\/39\/2025\/04\/img_1964-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/digitalwriting.cornellcollege.edu\/empowhersports\/wp-content\/uploads\/39\/2025\/04\/img_1964-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/digitalwriting.cornellcollege.edu\/empowhersports\/wp-content\/uploads\/39\/2025\/04\/img_1964-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/digitalwriting.cornellcollege.edu\/empowhersports\/wp-content\/uploads\/39\/2025\/04\/img_1964.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-contrast-dark-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-84ce5d9ee33cd052ab3e42066daea1aa\"><strong>NIL Deals:<\/strong> Nautica, Sports Illustrated Swimsuit, Passes, Crocs, Vuori, American Eagle, Body Armor, Accelerator, Motorola, and Leaf Trading Cards, among others.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-contrast-dark-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e6d5e05aab8d6a733b5076a7c16ca19\">Livvy is a confident athlete but is on multiple social media platforms like Tiktok and Instagram with over 13 million followers. She knows how to provide her fans with the media she presents on her socials as well as her NIL endorsments. Allowing her  to be number one ranked women&#8217;s college athlete in NIL endorsements ranging to 4.1 million. She also is a brand ambassador and influencer. On top of all this she also is a graduate student with a major in technology management.&nbsp;<br><br><strong>Quote:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-sports\/story\/_\/id\/43938472\/olivia-livvy-dunne-lsu-gymnastics-ncaa-nil\">&#8220;I was 18 years old when everything changed, and I felt like I couldn&#8217;t breathe, I felt like I couldn&#8217;t make a mistake. But something you learn on social media is you will get hate and you will get people that are bitter towards you, especially when you have success. But I think that having the eyes on me has been such a blessing in my life, and I feel like it&#8217;s translated over into eyes on the sport of gymnastics, which was a huge deal to me and a huge reason why I kept coming back for more. &#8230; Watching the growth of the sport, and women&#8217;s sports overall, has meant so much to me.&#8221; &#8211; Livvy Dunne<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-pale-pink-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-03490dcebc7b585fb89a812d76f28a63\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lsusports.net\/sports\/wbball\/roster\/player\/flaujae-johnson\/\">Flau\u2019jae Johnson: LSU Women&#8217;s Basketball\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalwriting.cornellcollege.edu\/empowhersports\/wp-content\/uploads\/39\/2025\/04\/FlauJae-Johnson.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-405\" style=\"width:957px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalwriting.cornellcollege.edu\/empowhersports\/wp-content\/uploads\/39\/2025\/04\/FlauJae-Johnson.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/digitalwriting.cornellcollege.edu\/empowhersports\/wp-content\/uploads\/39\/2025\/04\/FlauJae-Johnson-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/digitalwriting.cornellcollege.edu\/empowhersports\/wp-content\/uploads\/39\/2025\/04\/FlauJae-Johnson-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NIL Deals: <\/strong>Unrivaled, Puma, The Athlete\u201ds Foot, Amazon, Powerade, and JBL Audio, among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flau\u2019jae is a excellent women&#8217;s basketball player but she is not like others on top of being a college basketball player she is a rapper. SHe has worked with many well known artists within the music industry. She contains about 3.5 million followers over all her social media platforms. Throughout her basketball season last year she averaged 14.9 points, 5.5 rebounds, averaged 2.6 attempts form the 3-point line, and shot a total of 50.4%.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-contrast-dark-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-83be6d65c74112c6841f4928bf8b0bdd\"><strong>Quote: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/lsu-star-flaujae-johnson-says-unrivaled-league-changing-game-she-joins-nil-partnership\">&#8220;I think the equity is the most important part, just being able to be invested in something like that,&#8221; Johnson told Fox News Digital. &#8220;And for me, being able to leverage my brand and to create business opportunities. That\u2019s really what this NIL space is all about. When you\u2019re in NIL, you literally have this short window where everybody wants to have you a part [of something], so to really leverage that into something that\u2019s going to last for a long time. It\u2019s going to be in my business portfolio and gain capital in the future, that\u2019s a really big deal.&#8221; &#8211; Flau\u2019jae Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-pale-pink-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-bcd825794316570057b2359d0f59e022\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uconnhuskies.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/paige-bueckers\/14065\"><strong>Paige Bueckers: UCONN Women&#8217;s Basketbal<\/strong>l<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalwriting.cornellcollege.edu\/empowhersports\/wp-content\/uploads\/39\/2025\/04\/dc45d27358bb49dd873e51332ba5109fUConn_Busy_Bueckers_Basketball_38719.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-404\" style=\"width:957px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalwriting.cornellcollege.edu\/empowhersports\/wp-content\/uploads\/39\/2025\/04\/dc45d27358bb49dd873e51332ba5109fUConn_Busy_Bueckers_Basketball_38719.jpg 640w, https:\/\/digitalwriting.cornellcollege.edu\/empowhersports\/wp-content\/uploads\/39\/2025\/04\/dc45d27358bb49dd873e51332ba5109fUConn_Busy_Bueckers_Basketball_38719-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NIL Deals: <\/strong>Gatorade, Nike, CeraVe Skincare, Bose, StockX, among others.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-contrast-dark-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f96d376e0006b925ad974e4215e04345\">Paige is a dominant 5th year female basketball guard for the Huskies. Prior to Paige&#8217;s collegiate basketball career with UCONN she already had earned many accolades. Which were McDonald&#8217;s All-American, Gatorade Female High School Athlete of the Year, Gatorade National Player of the Year, Naismith Prep Player of the Year, Morgan Wootten National Player of the Year, and Minnesota Miss Basketball in 2020 and was a five-star recruit upon graduation. She has faced a lot of adversity throughout her college career like tearing her ACL in 2022, causing her to miss the entire 2022-2023 season. She has averaged 18.8 points, 4.4 assists, and 4.1 rebounds this year.&nbsp;<br><br><strong>Quote:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/03\/04\/uconn-star-paige-bueckers-on-nil-and-womens-sports.html#:~:text=%22I've%20been%20very%20blessed,college%20as%20a%20student%20athlete.\">\u201cI\u2019ve been very blessed, very fortunate to have this opportunity with NIL to be able to capitalize off of that, start to build wealth, start to make money in college as a student athlete. But definitely, I think at first when NIL came into play, I didn\u2019t really know much about finances,\u201d&nbsp; \u201cIt\u2019s done great things to the women\u2019s game,\u201d she said, \u201cin terms of the visibility of seeing people on commercials, ads and all over social media.\u201d &#8211; Paige Bueckers<\/a><br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Top Women&#8217;s Athletes In NIL Endorsements:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile has-contrast-dark-background-color has-background\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalwriting.cornellcollege.edu\/empowhersports\/wp-content\/uploads\/39\/2025\/04\/NCAA-NIL-Credit-NCAA-Courtesy-MGN-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-412 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalwriting.cornellcollege.edu\/empowhersports\/wp-content\/uploads\/39\/2025\/04\/NCAA-NIL-Credit-NCAA-Courtesy-MGN-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/digitalwriting.cornellcollege.edu\/empowhersports\/wp-content\/uploads\/39\/2025\/04\/NCAA-NIL-Credit-NCAA-Courtesy-MGN-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/digitalwriting.cornellcollege.edu\/empowhersports\/wp-content\/uploads\/39\/2025\/04\/NCAA-NIL-Credit-NCAA-Courtesy-MGN-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/digitalwriting.cornellcollege.edu\/empowhersports\/wp-content\/uploads\/39\/2025\/04\/NCAA-NIL-Credit-NCAA-Courtesy-MGN.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-pale-pink-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1ed6d9e6260ec507aa60e6266b76ba1a\">Livvy Dunne ($4.1 million)&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-pale-pink-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9d14d450c58bd7e35177b6bc505e7e2f\">Flau&#8217;Jae Johnson ($1.5 million)&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-pale-pink-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c59b1503c0efe122fead1a153a703814\">Paige Bueckers ($1.5 million)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-pale-pink-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-31636fa3d71157130c8e284085603201\"> Kai Trump ($1.2 million)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-pale-pink-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d447addee99bfe41c436e150f1baf319\">Haley Cavinder ($889K)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-pale-pink-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4d6c2cee852773b6bc878f53e7497c82\">Hanna Cavinder ($862K)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-pale-pink-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4e6609c4aa44534bbd797fd408001672\">Hailey Van Lith ($772K)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-pale-pink-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3c38cbc2db007e4305540204b281dbb8\">Nijaree Canady ($751K)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-pale-pink-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c43f642f1eb1750f5f3e10f8f788897b\">Juju Watkins ($739K)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-pale-pink-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0236e3357a599020a1766248d8da2ef3\">Anna Frey ($681K)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Future Of NIL:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>NIL provides many opportunities for women&#8217;s athletics as a whole. 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