Women in Sports Bios
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
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A-C
- Alcott, Amy, golf
- Ashford, Evelyn, track and field
- Austin, Tracy, tennis
- Baiul, Oksana, figure skating
- Berg, Patricia Jane, golf
- Blair, Bonnie, speed skating
- Bradley, Pat, golf
- Brisco-Hooks, Valerie, track and field
- Butcher, Susan, sled dog racing
- Capriati, Jennifer, tennis
- Carner, JoAnne, golf
- Cawley, Evonne Goolagong, tennis
- Chadwick, Florence swimming
- Clijsters Elke, tennis player
- Clijsters, Kim, tennis player
- Coachman, Alice, track and field
- Coetzer, Amanda, tennis player
- Cohen, Sasha, figure skater
- Comaneci, Nadia, gymnastics
- Connolly, Maureen, tennis
- Cooper, Cynthia, basketball
- Court, Margaret Smith, tennis
D-G
- Davenport, Lindsay, tennis
- DeFrantz, Anita, olympics
- de Varona, Donna, swimming
- Devers, Gail, track and field
- Dod, Charlotte, tennis, golf, archery
- Douglas, Gabby, gymnast
- du Pont, Margaret Osborne, track
- Ederle, Gertrude, swimming
- Ellison, Mary Lillian, wrestling
- Evans, Janet, swimming
- Evert, Chris, tennis
- Fleming, Peggy, figure skating
- Freeman, Cathy, track and field
- Fraser, Dawn, swimming
- Gibson, Althea, tennis
- Golovin, Tatiana, tennis player
- Graf, Steffi, tennis
- Granato, Cammi, ice hockey
- Guthrie, Janet, auto racing
H-K
- Hamm, Mia, soccer player
- Hamill, Dorothy, figure skating
- Hantuchova, Daniela, tennis player
- Harding, Tonya, figure skating
- Harkleroad, Ashley, tennis player
- Henin-Hardenne, Justine, tennis player
- Heiss, Carol, figure skating
- Henie, Sonja figure skating
- Hingis, Martina, tennis
- Holdsclaw, Chamique, basketball
- Holm, Eleanor, swimming
- Hughes, Sarah, figure skater
- Hyman, Flo, volleyball
- Inkster, Juli, golf
- Jacobs, Helen Hull, tennis
- Jones, Marion, track and field
- Joyner, Florence Griffith, track and field
- Joyner-Kersee, Jackie, track and field
- Kerrigan, Nancy, figure skating
- King, Betsy, golf
- King, Billie Jean, tennis
- Korbut, Olga, gymnastics
- Kournikova, Anna, tennis player
- Kristiansen, Ingrid, running
- Krone, Julie, horse racing
- Kwan, Michelle, figure skating
L-N
- Lawrence, Andrea Mead , skiing
- Lenglen, Suzanne, tennis
- Leslie, Lisa, basketball
- Lieberman-Cline, Nancy, basketball
- Lipinski, Tara, figure skating
- Lobo, Rebecca, basketball
- Longo, Jeannie, cycling
- Lopez, Nancy, golf
- Lopiano, Donna, basketball, softball
- McCormick, Pat, diving
- McKinney, Tamara, skiing
- Meyer, Debbie swimming
- Meyers, Anne, basketball
- Miller, Cheryl, basketball
- Miller, Shannon, gymnastics
- Moody, Helen Wills, tennis
- Muldowney, Shirley, auto racing
- Navratilova, Martina, tennis
- Newby-Fraser, Paula, triathlete
P-S
- Pak, Se Ri, golf
- Retton, Mary Lou, gymnastics
- Rheaume, Manon, ice hockey
- Romary, Janice-Lee, fencing
- Rudolph, Wilma, running
- St. James, Lyn, auto racing
- Samuelson, Joan Benoit, running
- Schett, Barbara, tennis player
- Seles, Monica, tennis
- Sharapova Maria, tennis player
- Sheehan, Patty, golf
- Shaughnessy Meghann, tennis player
- Slaney, Mary Decker, running
- Sorenstam, Annika, golf
- Stephens, Helen, track and field
- Street, Picabo, skiing
- Strug, Kerri, gymnastics
- Suggs, Louise, golf
- Summitt, Pat, basketball
- Swoopes, Sheryl, basketball
T-Z
- Thompson, Jenny, swimming
- Torres, Dara, swimming
- Tyus, Wyomia, track and field
- Van Dyken, Amy, swimming
- Vare, Glenna Collett, golf
- Wagner, Lisa bowling
- Waitz, Grete, running
- Walsh, Stella, runner
- Webb, Karrie, golf
- White, Willye, track and field
- Whitworth, Kathy, golf
- Wightman, Hazel Hotchkiss, tennis
- Wie Michelle, golfer
- Williams, Serena, tennis
- Williams, Venus, tennis
- Witt, Katarina, figure skating
- Wright, Mickey, golf
- Yamaguchi, Kristi, figure skating
- Young, Sheila, speed skating, cycling
- Yow, Kay, women's basketball coach
- Zaharias, Babe Didrikson, golf, baseball, track and field
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