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Additional authors

1. Bartter, Jessica.

Description

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

Alternative title

1. One hundred trailblazers : great women athletes who opened doors for future generations
2. Hundred trailblazers : great women athletes who opened doors for future generations
3. Trailblazers : great women athletes who opened doors for future generations
4. Great women athletes who opened doors for future generations

Subject

1. Women athletes > Biography
2. Sports > History
3. Athletes > History > Biography
4. Women athletes > History > Biography
5. Sports for women > History
6. Athletes > Biography

Contents

1. 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) --
2. 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.

Call number

1. JFD 10-682

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Author

1. Lapchick, Richard Edward.

Title

1. 100 trailblazers : great women athletes who opened doors for future generations / Richard Lipchick ; with Jessica Bartter ... [et al.].

Imprint

1. Morganville, WV : Fitness Information Technology, c2009.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Added author

1. Bartter, Jessica.

LCCN

1. 2009923998

ISBN

1. 9781885693860 (pbk.)
2. 1885693869 (pbk.)

Research call number

1. JFD 10-682