{"id":1687308,"date":"2022-10-12T23:06:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T03:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1687308"},"modified":"2022-10-12T23:06:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T03:06:43","slug":"water-polo-olympic-champion-steffens-calls-for-greater-u-s-team-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/water-polo-olympic-champion-steffens-calls-for-greater-u-s-team-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Water polo-Olympic champion Steffens calls for greater U.S. team recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwater-polo-olympic-champion-steffens-calls-for-greater-u-s-team-recognition%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1687308&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Amy Tennery<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (Reuters) \u2013     After three successive Olympic titles and a fourth back-to-back world championship this year, American water polo heroine Maggie Steffens has her sights on a new goal: getting her team and sport the recognition she believes they deserve.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>With their unprecedented successive runs to the podium, the American women\u2019s team has an impressive pedigree but has failed to garner much attention, something she hopes to change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe put so much effort into finally being the team that changes the narrative, finally being the team that says, \u2018This is our \u201999 World Cup women\u2019s soccer moment\u2019,\u201d Steffens told Reuters, a reference to the U.S. national team\u2019s blockbuster World Cup on home turf. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhysically we\u2019re doing everything we can do. We\u2019re winning gold medals. We\u2019re breaking records.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among the best players ever to enter the pool, Steffens earned the Women\u2019s Sports Foundation\u2019s (WSF) sportswoman of the year honour in the team category on Wednesday, a recognition that often goes to competitors in more mainstream American sports such as soccer and basketball.    <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you develop in the sport, and I\u2019ve been around it for so long, being a leader, being a veteran, my goals are so much more big-picture,\u201d said Steffens, who hit the headlines in Tokyo when she surpassed the all-time Olympic scoring record days after breaking her nose during a match. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do these women get more opportunities than I had?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old launched data analytics company 6-8 Sports with fellow Olympian Tony Azevedo with the aim of bringing attention to so-called \u201cdeveloping sports\u201d and earlier this year USA Water Polo named the company its official statistics provider.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWater polo is a very, you know, \u2018put your head down and work\u2019 type of sport,\u201d she said. \u201cA lot of it is unseen, a lot of it is unnoticed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Amy Tennery in New York; editing by Clare Fallon)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/water-polo-olympic-champion-steffens\/attachment\/fina-world-championships\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c3.oann.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportSportsNews\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI9C02M-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI9C02M-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) \u2013 After three successive Olympic titles and a fourth back-to-back world championship this year, American water polo heroine Maggie Steffens has her sights on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1687308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1687308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}