World Golf Hall of Famer Annika Sörenstam is one of the most successful golfers in Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) history. She has an astounding list of wins, including three U.S. Women’s Open titles, 94 worldwide victories (72 on the LPGA Tour), and a record eight Player of the Year awards…
American beach volleyball star Misty May-Treanor is a three-time Olympic gold medalist who enjoyed a record-breaking career. She and her teammate Kerri Walsh-Jennings have been called “the greatest beach volleyball team of all time”…
Legendary tennis star Steffi Graf is considered one of the greatest players to ever grace the courts. Nicknamed “Fraulein Forehand” because of her incredibly powerful tennis stroke, she dominated the sport in the 1980s and ‘90s. She was ranked the top female player by the Women’s Tennis Association for a record 377 weeks, of which 186 were consecutive…
The iconic Florence Griffith Joyner, also known as FloJo, was one of the fastest runners American track and field has ever seen. She set world records in 1988 in both the 100- and 200-meter races and earned three gold medals in the Seoul 1988 Olympic Games. She was known not only for her stamina and speed, but also her flamboyant and eclectic style…
Czech-born American tennis legend Martina Navratilova is considered one of the greatest to ever play the game. No male or female player has won more tournaments in the Open Era since it began in 1968. She won 18 major singles titles, 31 major women’s doubles titles…
Olympic legend Jackie Joyner-Kersee, named by Sports Illustrated as the Greatest Female Athlete of All-Time, has gone down in history with record-setting scores and achievements. She is a six-time Olympic medalist, with three gold medals, who dominated in the heptathlon and long jump events throughout her career…
The multi-talented Sarah Spain is not only an award-winning sports journalist but an athlete and true sports fan herself. She is the host of her own national ESPN Radio show, “Spain and Fitz,” and her own podcast, “That’s What She Said.” She appears regularly as a panelist on ESPN’s “Around the Horn,” “Highly Questionable,” “Outside The Lines,” and “SportsCenter,” and writes a column for espnW…
No American woman has brought home the gold in women’s figure skating since Sarah Hughes won in dramatic fashion at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics when she was just 17 years old. “At the time, I thought Salt Lake probably would be my only Olympics, because so much of my life at that point was training, with the ultimate goal of making the Olympic team…
Melissa “Missy” Franklin made a smashing Olympics debut in the summer of 2012, winning a total of five medals, four of them gold. She tore through the women’s backstroke events, winning gold in both the 100-meter and 200-meter races, setting what was at the time a world record in the process. She was 17 years old…
With successful careers as an athlete, model, actress, and public speaker, Aimee Mullins has consistently broken through many barriers – but don’t make the mistake of referring to her as disabled. “‘Disabled’ is perfectly relevant when describing a piece of machinery. But I find it really problematic when we use it to describe humans,” Mullins said in an interview with the podcast “Change Lab”…
