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Author:

Lapchick, Richard Edward.

Title:

100 trailblazers : great women athletes who opened doors for future generations / Richard Lipchick ; with Jessica Bartter ... [et al.].

Publisher:

Fitness Information Technology,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xviii, 500 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Women athletes--History--Biography.
Women athletes--Biography.
Athletes--History--Biography.
Athletes--Biography.
Sports for women--History.
Sports--History.

Other Authors:

Bartter, Jessica.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

1885693869 (pbk.)
9781885693860 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)261177746

LCCN:

2009923998

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)