Influential Female AthletesBy: Ashley Lee

“Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.” – Vince Lombardi

Ann Meyers-Drysdale #15Currently 61-years-oldPoint-Guard: retired jersey

First person of either gender to play on the U.S. national team while still being in High school.

First woman to sign a four year athletic scholarship contract for College. (UCLA)

First female to ever sign a contract with an NBA team.(Indiana Pacers in 1979)

Ann had her own book written about her

Kim MulkeyCurrently 53-years-old

First female in the

country to join the

boys in an organized basketball

league.

Lead her high school team to four straight

state championships

as an All-American point

guard. Received a full athletic scholarship to Louisiana

Tech University and made

All-American again.

First person in all of the NCAA to have won championships as a player, assistant coach,

and head coach.

Won two NCAA

National Championsh

ips while coaching at Baylor University.

Cheryl Miller #31Currently 52-years-oldRetired Jersey in 1986

Four time All-American as a forward at the University of Southern California.

Scored the sixth highest career points in NCAA history.

Scored the third highest career rebound shots in NCAA history.Won two NCAA titles and maintained a 112-20 record.

First basketball player out of males and females to have a retired jersey in University history.

Head coach of Woman’s basketball at Langston University.

Brandi ChastainCurrently 47-years-old

Scored the game winning goal in a penalty shootout to win the 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup.

First female to ever rip off her shirt and slide on her knees for celebration.

Won the Freshmen Player Of The Year award at the University of California-Berkeley

Transferred to Santa Clara University and lead the team to two Final Four NCAA appearances.

Dawn StaleyCurrently 45-years-old

Played point guard for the University of Virginia.

Went to the Summer Olympics in 1996 and won a Gold medal.

Made All-American hall of fame player and coach. Three-time

Olympian and won Gold in the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Played in the American Basketball League and WNBA. Voted Top 15

Player of WNBA history.

She led the University of South Carolina to six NCAA tournaments, three regular season conference championships, and four conference tournament titles as a coach.

Annika SorenstamCurrently 45-years-old

Reached the most wins for a female golfer with winning 90 International Tournaments as a professional.

Won seven collegiate titles and became the first non-American and the first freshman to win the individual NCAA Division I Championship.

She was the 1991 NCAA Co-Player of the Year, the 1992 Pac-10 champion, and a 1991-92 NCAA All-American.

Graduated From Arizona University as one of the most successful golfers in history.

Katie HnidaCurrently 34-years-old

One of the best-known female

football players in the Nation.

Teen People Magazine named her one of the ’20 most influential teens’.

First female to score in an NCAA Division 1-A game.

First female to dress for a bowl game. Also dressed for three more after that.

Third female ever to score in a college football game.

Placekicker for the University of New Mexico Lobos.

Missy FranklinCurrently 20-years-old

Already one of the most successful athletes out of males or females, and still hasn’t graduated from UC

Berkeley yet.Five-time Olympic medalist. Four out of the five are Gold medals. She is a four-time

individual NCAA champion, having won the 2014 and 2015 200-yard freestyle and 200-yard backstroke, and 2015 individual medley.

Franklin holds the current world record in the 200-meter

backstroke, and the American records in the 100-meter and

200-meter backstroke.

‘Worlds Swimmer of the Year’

Awarded multiple times

“Champions believe in themselves, even when no one else does.”

References

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