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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lapchick, Richard Edward
Other Authors: Bartter, Jessica
Language:English
Published: Morganville, WV : Fitness Information Technology, [2009], ©2009.
Subjects:
Women athletes > History > Biography.
Women athletes > Biography.
Athletes > History > Biography.
Athletes > Biography.
Sports for women > History.
Sports > History.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:xviii, 500 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm
Variant Title:
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: Book
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.