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Additional authors

1. Bartter, Jessica.

Description

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

Summary

1. Through an effective combination of historical research and personal interviews, 100 Trailblazers offers compelling portraits of the dedicated athletes who broke gender barriers on college campuses and in professional sports all around the country. These engaging accounts detail the adversities these pioneering women faced and they achieved.

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
5. One hundred trailblazers

Subject

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

Genre/Form

1. Biographies

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.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

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