Outstanding Women Athletes

Download or read book Outstanding Women Athletes written by Janet Woolum and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1998-06-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DescriptionA unique combination of history, biography, bibliography, and statistics, the widely acclaimed first edition of Outstanding Women Athletes has now been updated to reflect the many significant changes that have taken place in women's sports in America in recent years. Now added are the biographies of 26 sports figures who have recently emerged as role models in traditional women's sports such as tennis and figure skating as well as in sports that historically excluded women such as mountain climbing, bullfighting, and boxing. Also new is a chapter profiling 10 women's championship teams, including each organization's history, brief biographies of 200 selected team members, and major team achievements.