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Outstanding women athletes : who they are and how they influenced sports in America

Author: Janet Woolum
Publisher: Phoenix, AZ : Oryx Press, 1992.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Sixty women athletes from 19 different sports from the late nineteenth century to 1991 are included in this source which highlights women's sporting experienced in America. A few of the women are not American, but fall into the category of "influencing" American sports. The work is in there sections. Part 1 is a history of women's sports; the second part contains the biographies, arranged alphabetically. Each entry  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biography Dictionaries
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Woolum, Janet, 1955-
Outstanding women athletes.
Phoenix, AZ : Oryx Press, 1992
(OCoLC)593764497
Online version:
Woolum, Janet, 1955-
Outstanding women athletes.
Phoenix, AZ : Oryx Press, 1992
(OCoLC)622580618
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Janet Woolum
ISBN: 0897747135 9780897747134
OCLC Number: 25245574
Description: xvi, 279 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents: Tenley Albright --
Constance M.K. Applebee --
Evelyn Ashford --
Senda Berenson --
Patty Berg --
Fanny Blankers-Koen --
Susan Butcher --
Connie Carpenter-Phinney --
Florence Chadwick --
Nadia Comaneci --
Maureen Connolly --
Donna de Varona --
Amelia Earhart --
Gertrude Ederle --
Chris Evert --
Peggy Fleming --
Althea Gibson --
Diana Golden --
Steffi Graf --
Janet Guthrie --
Dorothy Hamill --
Carol Heiss-Jenkins --
Sonja Henie --
Flo Hyman --
Joan Joyce --
Florence Griffith Joyner --
Jackie Joyner-Kersee --
Billie Jean King --
Micki King --
Olga Korbut --
Julie Krone --
Marion Ladewig --
Andrea Mead Lawrence --
Nancy Liebermann-Cline --
Nancy Lopez --
Alice Marble --
Patricia McCormick --
Floretta Doty McCutcheon --
Ann Meyers --
Cheryl Miller --
Helen Wills Moody --
Shirley Muldowney --
Martina Navratilova --
Cindy Nelson --
Mary Lou Retton --
Cathy Rigby --
Wilma Rudloph --
Joan Benoit Samuelson --
Eleanora Sears --
Mary Decker Slaney --
Patricia Head Summitt --
Wyomia Tyus --
Glenna Collett Vare --
Grete Andersen Waitz --
Kathy Whitworth --
Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman --
Lynette Woodard --
Mickey Wright --
Sheila Yount --
Mildred "Babe" Didrickson Zaharias.
Responsibility: by Janet Woolum ; forewords by Billie Jean King, Anita DeFrantz, Deborah Slaner Anderson.

Abstract:

Sixty women athletes from 19 different sports from the late nineteenth century to 1991 are included in this source which highlights women's sporting experienced in America. A few of the women are not American, but fall into the category of "influencing" American sports. The work is in there sections. Part 1 is a history of women's sports; the second part contains the biographies, arranged alphabetically. Each entry is about 2 pages with a photograph, some with performances charted, and all with suggestions for further reading. The appendices list Olympic women medallists by sport, awards and championships, and arranges the athletes in the book by sport. Coverage overlaps but does not duplicate "Condon's Great Women Athletes." Recommended for middle and senior high schools.

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