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“Everything old was new again…yet darker and more disengaged,” writes Sophie Gilbert in Girl On Girl. She’s talking about the positioning of women in pop culture, and how, rather than being linear, the progression of feminism remains agonisingly circular, two steps forward, one step back, its trajectory reflected in music, film, online. Gilbert knows her […]

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“Everything old was new again…yet darker and more disengaged,” writes Sophie Gilbert in Girl On Girl. She’s talking about the positioning of women in pop culture, and how, rather than being linear, the progression of feminism remains agonisingly circular, two steps forward, one step back, its trajectory reflected in music, film, online.

Gilbert knows her pop culture — she’s a staff writer at The Atlantic, a Pulitzer finalist taking us on a richly detailed deep dive into the shallows of pop, porn, movies, tabloids, reality TV, fame, sex, fashion, work. 

In Girl On Girl she examines how women and girls have been presented in pop culture from the late 1990s through the first two decades of this century — how things progressed, then regressed. How girl power was met by boy rage.

The late 1990s saw the Riot Grrl movement coining the term Girl Power, only for the Spice Girls to appropriate it and monetise it to meaninglessness. In 1999, a 60-foot naked image of Gail Porter was projected onto London’s Houses of Parliament to promote a men’s magazine, without Porter’s prior knowledge or consent, while a 17-year-old Britney Spears was photographed on a bed in her underwear for the cover of Rolling Stone, clutching a Teletubby. 

The movie American Beauty — about a middle-aged man perving over his daughter’s teenage best friend — won five Oscars, including Best Picture. In the following decade women watched a slew of movies that hated women: Shallow Hal, White Chicks, Knocked Up, Date Movie.

These pop culture moments would be unthinkable now, yet back in the 1990s and 2000s, when it was acceptable to overtly sexualise underage girls and ridicule and objectify female bodies, the idea of American women losing their reproductive rights — in place since 1973 — would have been even more unthinkable.

Entities like Andrew Tate would have been unthinkable, as would the idea of an openly misogynist white supremacist in the White House. And yet here we are. Progress, backlash, progress, backlash.

“The idea for the book came about in 2022 after Roe v Wade was overturned, after the #MeToo moment when we’d had all these women’s stories and narratives,” says Gilbert. We are speaking on Zoom — after a long stint living and working in New York, she and her American husband and their twins now live in London.

“It’s horrifying,” she says of what’s currently happening in the US. “They’re trying to legislate trans people out of existence. It’s horrifying that it can happen so quickly. 

“In Trump’s first term there were all these Handmaid’s Tale comparisons, but what we are seeing now is so much more akin to what happens in the book — overnight people are losing rights, and it’s happening so fast there’s a real struggle to respond with the strength that is necessary.”

Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned A Generation of Women Against Themselves by Sophie Gilbert, published by Penguin, is out on April 29.
Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned A Generation of Women Against Themselves by Sophie Gilbert, published by Penguin, is out on April 29.

She remembers how #MeToo, when it began in 2017, had felt so transformative.

“And then suddenly there is this massive pendulum swing backwards, and I was really perplexed by this — so the mission of the book was to try to find out why this swing back and forth happens, and why it’s always inevitable.”

Born in 1980, Gilbert remembers as a teenage girl thinking how “power, for women, was sexual… there was no other kind”. Nor was there any sense of cultural boundaries around women’s bodies; if you were a female in the public eye, you were entertainment meat.

“There was a sense that if you were a woman, over 16, and especially if you were famous, your body was seen as in the public domain,” she says. “If you were willing to present yourself on camera, that meant you lost your rights to control how your body might be presented.

“You saw this with Pamela Anderson — because she was sexy on Baywatch, because she posed for Playboy, people assumed they had the right to see her have sex with her husband via a tape that was stolen — there was a sense of, ‘oh this is what you wanted’. Now I think we have a much better understanding of boundaries and people being able to choose and negotiate their relationship with fame a bit more. Back then, for any woman, you were public property.”

She adds how we are far more protective and boundaried of ourselves, and of our girls: ““I don’t think American Beauty would be broadly popular now.”

This all-out pursuit of women in the public eye by a rapacious media — when the paparazzi was in its ‘industrial phase’ — peaked between 2001 and the financial crash of 2008. Young women including Lindsey Lohan, Nicole Ritchie, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, and Amy Winehouse were pursued and dehumanised by outlets like TMZ and Perez Hilton; capturing a famous young woman disintegrating in public was their money shot.

Actress amd singer Lindsay Lohan photographed at Premier Radio in New york on December 5, 2005.
Actress amd singer Lindsay Lohan photographed at Premier Radio in New york on December 5, 2005.

No misogynist epithet off limits — it was an era of sluts, trainwrecks, and gold-diggers,. When Heath Ledger died in 2008, Perez Hilton printed T-shirts emblazoned with Why Couldn’t It Be Britney? Upskirting was standard practice, and the hounding of underage girls like Emma Watson and Miley Cyrus was considered fair game.

“When celebrity became an industry and paparazzi became so intrusive and aggressive in their methods that the movie stars stepped back, there was still a need for photographs to fill spaces in magazines and gossip blogs,” says Gilbert.

This created a whole new genre of celebrity — the reality star. Professional socialites such as Paris Hilton stepped into the public domain.

“This really changed what we understood to be fame, and gave us a new understanding of how a person can become famous,” she says.

Within the famous-for-being-famous gang, the Kardashians are the most successful. Kim Kardashian had worked for a time as Paris Hilton’s stylist, before their own reality show began in 2007. It’s still going today. In 2019, Forbes called the 22-year-old Kylie Jenner the first “selfie-made billionaire” thanks to the success of her cosmetics brand.

“The Kardashians have been better at playing that role than anyone else in my lifetime,” says Gilbert. “They really understand the deal, they understand what’s expected of them, are impervious to criticism in a way that’s really interesting, and they’re really good at monetising eyeballs.” 

As the century progressed, the pendulum kept swinging. Lena Dunham’s Girls, all awkward white-girl reality, replaced the perfectionist consumerism Sex & The City, while capitalist girlboss leaning-in ousted more intersectional feminism. The unbridled recreational misogyny of the 2000s was, says Gilbert, “replaced by a better understanding of mental health and the ramifications of cruel commentary……generally I think the media and most responsible adults would never talk about young performers and stars the way they did then.” (Having said that, she recently deleted her X account because “the discourse there is so vile”.)

A recent cultural high point was 2023’s Barbie movie, which created a nostalgia for girlhood, a harking back to an innocent time of endless possibility. “What was so thrilling about the Barbie movie was that we were told as girls that we could do anything,” says Gilbert. 

“The messaging of Barbie was that we could be astronauts, airline pilots, anything. You will be strong and powerful. In a way the process of adolescence and young adulthood is realising all the ways in which this is not true.”

Margot Robbie as Barbie.
Margot Robbie as Barbie.

She pauses. “Well, some of it’s true — women are excelling at school and university and are making all kinds of measurable success career wise, while dealing with this very specific cultural backlash.

“But some of the suspicion around Barbie was that it was so girly. We’re seeing different types of girliness being represented on platforms like TikTok — different kinds of cultural nostalgia, like the Trad Wife and Stay At Home Girlfriend phenomena. Here is girliness presented not as an option for women, but as the default.”

She points out how girls have been schooled to self-objectify, rather than self-actualise, and wonders if we were not so conditioned to and distracted by presenting ourselves optimally — either online or IRL — would we be more actively pursuing the important stuff — social justice, equality, everything that was motivating Riot Grrls three decades ago.

“There’s an argument [made by Naomi Wolf in 1990’s The Beauty Myth] that beauty as an industry is a project to distract women from what really matters,” she says. “You know that feeling when you fixate on something about yourself that you hate? 

“I remember feeling that way in my teens and 20s, and now I wonder what I could have done with all that energy if I had been sending it outward instead of focusing on myself. 

“In terms of activism, I do wonder what could be done with all that energy, if we were to send it outward. Why don’t we protest more, use our power more? Why have women in power felt so detached for so long?”

She concludes on a hopeful note, however, citing sociologist Alice Evans who argues that “the biggest driver of gender equality is romantic love”. How
loving men want women to thrive and be happy. Is this the answer?

“Culturally, it might be,” she says. “Culturally, where ever you see real romance and real love, you see women being accepted as equal human beings. That seems like such a simple thing but it’s not. 

Sophie Gilbert: "There’s an argument [made by Naomi Wolf in 1990’s The Beauty Myth] that beauty as an industry is a project to distract women from what really matters."
Sophie Gilbert: “There’s an argument [made by Naomi Wolf in 1990’s The Beauty Myth] that beauty as an industry is a project to distract women from what really matters.”

“It’s not something we can take for granted. Which is what makes me so concerned about this epidemic of women-hatred among young men online, especially lonely young men who are seeing girls do better than them academically, who then go online and watch Andrew Tate videos. It’s so easy to blame women.

“So much of the backlash now, in the US, coming from people like Elon Musk, JD Vance, Donald Trump, is this idea that women are not equal human beings and should not be promoted in the workplace. 

“That basically the rightful people who should have power in the US are white men, and anyone else who has been promoted has been done so unfairly as part of a DEI initiative. There’s a very real backlash against women’s equality happening now. I don’t know where it’s going. But to end on a hopeful note, there’s always a counter-backlash, right?

“Women need to think more about power, especially in culture. Power is not a negative thing. The ways it’s abused are negative, but not power itself. There is a consistent detachment throughout culture between women and power, this idea that the only kind of power we have is sexual.

“When Roe v Wade was overturned, I thought there would be rioting in the streets, mass strikes — and there really wasn’t. Protests, yes, but not the massive movement of insurgency that I’d thought there would be — and yes, women are not a monolith, we don’t all want the same things, and also we are very busy, but part of it is our failure to understand that we do have power and we can use it.

“My dream for the next few years is seeing people play with that idea more in culture, experiment with it, and try to think of what powerful women may look like. That would be my dream.”

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Jumbos Advance in National Competitions

Tufts student-athletes are on a roll, as teams and individuals advance in post-season (and in some cases, post-graduation) competition. Men’s Lacrosse The top-ranked Jumbos played one of their best games of the season on May 18 in the NCAA Division III men’s lacrosse semifinals, exploding for 26 goals to knock off No. 5 Bowdoin College […]

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Tufts student-athletes are on a roll, as teams and individuals advance in post-season (and in some cases, post-graduation) competition.

Men’s Lacrosse

The top-ranked Jumbos played one of their best games of the season on May 18 in the NCAA Division III men’s lacrosse semifinals, exploding for 26 goals to knock off No. 5 Bowdoin College on Bello Field, and now head to the national title game for the third consecutive season. 

Tufts (21-0) will take on No. 17 Dickinson College (17-5) in the NCAA championship game on May 25 at 7 p.m. at Gillette Stadium, the first time Tufts has played a title game in Foxborough. It is the first meeting of the two teams. 

In the quarterfinals Tufts beat No. 7 Gettysburg College 17-8 on May 17, also on Bello Field. 

Women’s Lacrosse

The women’s lacrosse team narrowly edged No. 7 Salisbury, 8-7, after initially taking an 8-5 lead early in the fourth quarter of the NCAA women’s lacrosse quarterfinals at Bello Field on May 18. 

With the victory, the No. 1 ranked Tufts (20-1) returns to the NCAA Final Four for the third time in program history and the first since 2022. They will take on No. 6 Gettysburg College on May 23 at 7 p.m. at Kerr Stadium on the campus of Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. 

Tuftsand Gettysburg have played just once before, when the Jumbos defeated the Bullets 16-9 in Gettysburg on May 23, 2022.

Men’s Tennis

The Jumbos picked up a resounding 4-1 win against RPI on May 11 to advance to the NCAA Division III men’s tennis championship quarterfinals in Claremont, California against No. 6 Emory. It is their fourth straight season at the NCAA finals site, and their third straight match against a ranked opponent.

The Jumbos enter the quarterfinal round with a 22-2 record and were ranked No. 3 in the most recent Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) poll. Both Vuk Vuksanovic and Javier Gonzalez will compete later in May in the NCAA individual championships in singles and doubles.

Women’s Track and Field

The women’s track and field squad has eight entries in the NCAA Division III outdoor track and field championships on May 22-24 at the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio. 

Arielle Chechile (400-meter hurdles), Makayla Moriarty (400-meter dash), Harper Meek (high jump), Elysse Cumberland (long jump, triple jump), Jordan Andrew (long jump, triple jump), and Jackie Wells (javelin) will compete on behalf of Tufts. 

Men’s Track and Field

The Jumbos picked up a trio of entries in the NCAA outdoor men’s track and field championships on May 22-24 at the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio. 

Amokrane Aouchiche will compete in the 10,000-meter run; Josh Wilkie will take on the 400-meter hurdles; and Sahr Matturi will be in the long jump competition. 

Women’s Rowing 

The Jumbos received an automatic berth into the NCAA DIII women’s rowing championships after winning the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) championship race on May 11 for the second straight year.

The NCAA championships will be held May 30-31 at Mercer Lake in West Windsor, New Jersey. Eight teams were selected for the 2025 DIII rowing championships, with each team consisting of two boats (first varsity and second varsity). Tufts is the defending NCAA champion, winning its first national title last year in Bethel, Ohio. This is Tufts’ seventh berth into NCAAs overall, and second straight as an automatic qualifier.

Men’s Rowing

For the fourth year in a row, the men’s rowing team has earned an at-large berth into the Intercollegiate Rowing Association (IRA) Division III national championship regatta coming up May 30-31 on Cooper River in Camden, New Jersey.

The IRA national championship first included a DIII championship in 2022. Tufts has qualified for all four subsequent IRA DIII championships. The Jumbos were one of seven teams that earned the inaugural DIII berths in 2022 and finished as the national runner-up, with only the first varsity competing. At the last two IRA championships, both first and second varsity eights have raced. The Jumbos placed fifth in 2023 and tied for second in 2024.

Women’s Sailing

The women’s sailing team earned an at-large berth into the 2025 Intercollegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) Fleet Race national championship, which will be hosted by St. Mary’s College (Maryland) May 20-23.

Thirty-six teams will compete at the event, first in a pair of 18-team semifinal regattas. The top nine teams from each semifinal will advance to a two-day final.

Coed Sailing

The Jumbos received an at-large selection into the 2025 Intercollegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) Fleet Race national championship. The ICSA Open championship will be hosted by St. Mary’s College (Maryland) May 24-27.

Thirty-six teams will compete at the national championship regatta, first in a pair of 18-team semifinal events. The top nine teams from each semifinal will advance to a two-day final. 

Tufts will be one of 13 schools representing the strong New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association at the national championship. The Jumbos had a 10th-place finish at the 2025 New England Fleet Race championship April 19-20 in Rhode Island.



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Pair of Hononegah track and field student-athletes to run at collegiate level

ROCKTON, Ill. (WIFR) – Two athletes on Hononegah’s girls track and field team signed their papers to compete in the sport in college. Isabella Trout will run cross country at Rockford University and will be on the school’s inaugural track and field team. Off the track she has a perfect 4.0 gpa. On the track […]

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ROCKTON, Ill. (WIFR) – Two athletes on Hononegah’s girls track and field team signed their papers to compete in the sport in college.

Isabella Trout will run cross country at Rockford University and will be on the school’s inaugural track and field team.

Off the track she has a perfect 4.0 gpa. On the track coaches said she runs too much though it shows this is more than a sport to her. They also applauded her dedication to cheering on teammates at meet even when she can’t compete.

“With the injuries it’s definitely sometimes wavered but even through it my teammates have been overly supportive,” said Trout. “It’s amazing that I can still continue to watch them. Even when they are injured, I continue to support them so it’s a lot of support on support being able to come back from these injuries.”

Trout’s teammate Emma Kuo signed to run track at Augustana college in Rock Island. She said she loved how close the team felt and the beauty of the campus. She received other offers but wanted to run at a school the size of Augustana’s.

She said her favorite memory with the Indians track team is hanging out with teammates after meets.

She also comes from a family of runners.

“The day I beat my mom’s personal record was so exciting. We took a lot of pictures together,” said Kuo. “I beat my dad’s mile personal record, he really wasn’t a runner, but he did a timed trial in college.”

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Brookline boys flex in volleyball win at Lexington – Boston Herald

LEXINGTON – The Lexington boys volleyball team proved its merit in the Div. 1 state title conversation alongside the Bay State Conference’s quadrant of titans Monday night. But No. 1 Brookline, however slim, proved its edge. A chaotic environment against a nonleague, unfamiliar power fueled a rollercoaster of a rock-fight on the road, though the […]

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LEXINGTON – The Lexington boys volleyball team proved its merit in the Div. 1 state title conversation alongside the Bay State Conference’s quadrant of titans Monday night.

But No. 1 Brookline, however slim, proved its edge.

A chaotic environment against a nonleague, unfamiliar power fueled a rollercoaster of a rock-fight on the road, though the Warriors (16-1) overcame late deficits in the first two sets en route to a 3-1 win (27-25, 26-24, 23-25, 25-17) over the No. 7 Minutemen – snapping their program-record 17-game win streak.

Kris Vaivars (27 kills) and Alec Smagula (47 assists) led yet another star-studded performance, supported by a long list of complementary performances.

The end result was a gutsy win that felt like one of the most significant of the season to date – even considering the 5-1 record Brookline posted against No. 2 Natick, No. 4 Needham and No. 5 Newton North.

“This win, even though we won in four, I think it was a great win,” said Warriors head coach Lexi De La Cruz. “We didn’t know what to expect. I talked to my guys, I thought this team gave us one of the best games we have played in so far. They played better than how Needham played us. They played better than – even (in the loss to Natick), we were playing sloppy. … It felt like this was a great win based on the level the other team was playing.”

Lexington brought tenacity, composure and high-level play from the opening serve, trading thunderous kills, eye-opening defense, and long rallies throughout in front of a rowdy crowd fit for state tournament game. Ale Luciani (18 kills) and Nadav Vachtel (10 kills, two blocks) paced the Minutemen (17-2), who then saw Adam Mann (eight kills) step up in the third and fourth sets once fellow standout hitter Nic Sanchez de Rojas (six kills, two aces) left with injury.

In the first set, Lexington battled back from down 22-20 to take a 25-24 lead on Mahin Rajesh’s (22 assists, two blocks, two kills) kill. In the second, it led 22-20 before clawing back from a 4-0 Brookline run with a Xander Jackson (four blocks, four kills) block to force extra points again at 24-24. And in the third, the Minutemen answered a 3-0 run from Brookline – which made it 23-23 – with consecutive Luciani kills to force a fourth set.

“It definitely felt different today,” De La Cruz said. “Dealing with (that) adversity helps us.”

Vaivars posted at least five kills in all four sets, and Smagula makes the Brookline attack run at a high level. But in each of those moments, the Warriors’ supporting cast proved the difference.

Teammates raved about Liam Raybould’s (eight kills, four blocks) night. Amir Tomer (five kills, block) passed extremely well. Kais Al-Fakhuri (three kills, three blocks) and Zachary Spencer (five kills, two blocks) combined for several key plays in critical times at the net, Jacob Lam served well, and Conor Christopher (four kills, block) was an offensive spark.

“I think we just have a deeper roster,” De La Cruz said. “Our role players are doing key parts. We definitely have Kris and Alec, but every single one of our players produces something unique that helps us win. … That’s the difference.”

Lexington seemed bound to win at least one set after the way it fought in the first two. Once it did, though, Brookline answered with a 25-17 fourth set that featured a 10-2 run in the early stages.

“When you lose a (set), you have to prove something,” De La Cruz said. “Proving that is coming out strong and winning the next set like we did.”



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Makhia Laster Earns Spot At NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships

Story Links BUFFALO, NY – Makhia Laster (Buffalo, NY/Tapestry Charter) of the Buffalo State outdoor track and field team has officially qualified for the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships next week. Laster will compete in what has become her signature event in the long jump. The meet will be hosted in Geneva, OH at […]

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BUFFALO, NY – Makhia Laster (Buffalo, NY/Tapestry Charter) of the Buffalo State outdoor track and field team has officially qualified for the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships next week. Laster will compete in what has become her signature event in the long jump. The meet will be hosted in Geneva, OH at the SPIRE Institute from May 22-24 with the women’s long jump taking place on Thursday, May 22.
 
Laster earns a spot at her fourth straight national meet between indoor and outdoor. She finished third in the event at NCAA Championships last season while earning First Team All-America status. In addition, she earned Second Team All-America status in each of the last two indoor seasons between the long jump and 60-meter dash. Laster holds the school record in the long jump for both indoor (5.80 meters) and outdoor (5.99 meters) and has won each of the last four SUNYAC titles in the event. Currently sitting ninth in the country in the event, Laster aims to make one last mark on her legacy at Buffalo State.

Laster quickly emerged as one of the top track athletes to compete at Buffalo State in program history. Entering NCAA Championships, Laster earned six SUNYAC Championships, 17 All-SUNYAC honors, 10 USTFCCCA All-Region honors, four All-America honors, and earned the Buffalo State Ruth Houston Award for Female Most Outstanding Career. She set her season-best mark of 5.97 meters last week at AARTFC Regionals.

 



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UW Athletics and Kaylee Prigge Agree to Contract Extension

LARAMIE, Wyo. (May 19, 2025) – University of Wyoming Athletics has announced a multi-year extension with Cowgirl Volleyball Head Coach Kaylee Prigge. The extension runs through the 2027 season. “I am eternally grateful to love what I do and who I do it with,” said Prigge. “We are thrilled to have the opportunity to continue […]

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LARAMIE, Wyo. (May 19, 2025) – University of Wyoming Athletics has announced a multi-year extension with Cowgirl Volleyball Head Coach Kaylee Prigge. The extension runs through the 2027 season.

“I am eternally grateful to love what I do and who I do it with,” said Prigge.

“We are thrilled to have the opportunity to continue growing and building Wyoming Volleyball for this community and the state of Wyoming. I want to thank Tom Burman, Taylor Stuemky and our entire administration for their support of the program and trust in our staff. Our athletics department is special because of the high-level commitment to every UW team. We truly are one state, one university and one team.”

In her first two campaigns at Wyoming, Prigge has led the Cowgirls to back-to-back national postseason appearances, UW has played in each of the last two NIVC Tournaments, advancing to the Great Eight Round in both seasons. In her two seasons, Prigge has led the Cowgirls to 39 victories.

As head coach, Prigge has guided six Cowgirls to All-Mountain West honors while seven student-athletes have been named to the CSC Academic All-District Team.

“Our future is bright and that is because of the group of young women that make up Cowgirl Volleyball. Their commitment to the development and growth of our program, is what I am most proud of and excited to continue. GO POKES!”

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Meet the High Divers of the World Aquatics Championships – Singapore 2025

Up next in the women’s competition is Morgane Herculano. Morgane placed 11th at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha 2024 and ready to show the world what she has been training for in the World Championships in Singapore 2025.  We put Morgane into the question-and-answer hot seat. Here’s what we got from her: Image Source: […]

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Up next in the women’s competition is Morgane Herculano. Morgane placed 11th at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha 2024 and ready to show the world what she has been training for in the World Championships in Singapore 2025. 

We put Morgane into the question-and-answer hot seat. Here’s what we got from her:


Image Source: Morgane Herculano competes in the Women’s High Diving at the World Aquatics Championships- Fukuoka 2023 (Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)

When asked about her ideal landmark to dive in front of, Morgane didn’t hesitate. “Maybe the bridge in San Francisco. the Golden Gate! Yes, the Golden Gate,” she said. Combining iconic architecture with her thrilling sport would be an unforgettable moment.


Image Source: Morgane Herculano competes in the Women’s 20m High Diving at the World Aquatics Championships- Doha 2024 (Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)

Of all the places Morgane has competed, Doha holds a special place in her heart. “The view, the way they set up the pool, and having all four sports together at the World Championships—it was incredible.” It was also her first World Championships, making it even more memorable.


Image Source: President Barack Obama speaks at the 121st International Olympic Committee in Copenhagen (Charles Dharapak-Pool/Getty Images)

If Morgane could invite anyone to watch her perform, her pick is presidential. “Barack Obama,” she said. With such a respected audience member, her dives would be even more impactful!

Morgane keeps it simple when preparing for a competition. “I eat a banana about an hour before diving,” she said. “It’s easy to digest and doesn’t make me feel heavy.” This practical snack ensures she’s fueled and focused.

Morgane draws inspiration from nature and majestic landscapes. One location on her wish list is “the big mountain in Chur,” a breathtaking Swiss destination. It’s a testament to her connection with natural beauty and her adventurous spirit.

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