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100 trailblazers : great women athletes who opened doors for future generations
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Title
100 trailblazers : great women athletes who opened doors for future generations / Richard Lipchick ; with Jessica Bartter ... [et al.].
ISBN
9781885693860 (pbk.)
1885693869 (pbk.)
Published
Morganville, WV : Fitness Information Technology, c2009.
Physical Description
xviii, 500 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.
Variant and related titles
One hundred trailblazers : great women athletes who opened doors for future generations
Hundred trailblazers : great women athletes who opened doors for future generations
Trailblazers : great women athletes who opened doors for future generations
Great women athletes who opened doors for future generations
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 10, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Foreword / Anita DeFrantz
1. An introductioin
2. Administrators break down walls (Judy Sweet
Charlotte West
Christine Grant
Merrily Dean Baker
Carol Gordon
Peggy Burke
Lonnie Leotus "Lee" Morrison
Carole Mushier
Carole Oglesby
Judith Holland
Laurie Mabry
Anne "Sandy" Barbour
Barbara Burke
Cary Sue Groth
Deborah A. Yow
Kathy Beauregard
Lisa Love
Donna Lopiano
Tina Sloan Green
Anita DeFrantz
Val Ackerman)
3. Women court equality and respect in tennis (Hazel Wightman
Margaret Osborne duPont
Billie Jean King
Maureen Connolly Brinker
Althea Gibson
Evonne Goolagong
Chris Evert
Martina Navratilova
Venus and Serena Williams)
4. Going the distance in golf : women drive the fairways (Glenna Collett-Vare
Louise Suggs
Patricia "Patty" Berg
Betty Jameson
Mary Kathryn "Mickey" Wright
Carol Mann
Kathy Whitworth
JoAnne Carner
Nancy Lopez
Annika Sorenstam)
5. Figure skating and speed skating : grace and power on ice (Sonja Henie
Mabel Fairbanks
Tenley E. Albright
Peggy Fleming Jenkins
Katarina Witt
Kristi Yamaguchi
Bonnie Blair)
6. Female swimmers and divers : lapping expectations in the pool (Eleanor Holm
Florence Chadwick
Debbie Meyer
Mary T. Meagher Plant
Tracy Caulkins
Janet Evans
Nancy Hogshead-Makar
Diana Nyad
Pat McCormick
Micki King)
7. Flying through the air with the greatest of ease : women gymnasts (Olga Korbut
Nadia Comaneci
Mary Lou Retton)
8. Speed, power, and grace ; women in track and field (Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias
Helen Stephens
Alice Coachman
Mae Faggs Starr
Wilma Rudolph
Madeline Manning Mims
Wyomia Tyus
Florence Griffith Joyner
Evelyn Ashford
Valerie Brisco-Hooks
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Joan Benoit-Samuelson
Willye White
Nell Jackson
Barbara Jacket
Beverly Kearney)
9. The explosion of women's soccer (Michelle Akers
Mia Hamm
Julie Foudy)
10. Women's softball and women in baseball : standing tall for females for decades (Marcenia Lyle Alberga, a.k.a. Toni Stone
Effa Manley
Sharron Backus
Margie Wright
Joan Joyce
Dorothy "Dot" Richardson
Lisa Fernandez)
11. Women basketball players : leaving footprints on the hardwood (Margaret Wade
Nancy Lieberman
Ann Meyers Drysdale
Pat Summitt
C. Vivian Stringer
Tara VanDerveer
Betty Jaynes
Lisa Leslie
Sheryl Swoopes
Cheryl Miller)
12. A smash over the net : women's volleyball (Flora "Flo" Hyman
Misty May-Treanor)
13. Women in the motor sports industry : blaze a hard road (Janet Guthrie
Lyn St. James
Danica Patrick)
14. Conclusion.
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