Women in Sports: 50 Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win, Rachel Ignotofsky
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Women in Sports: 50 Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win

Author: Rachel Ignotofsky

Narrator: Sarah Mollo-Christensen

Unabridged: 3 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook

Publisher: Highbridge Audio

Published: 01/17/2019

Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction - Biography & Autobiography - Women

Synopsis

Women in Sports highlights the achievements and stories of fifty notable women athletes from the 1800s to today, including trailblazers, Olympians, and record-breakers in more than forty sports. The athletes featured include well-known figures like tennis player Billie Jean King and gymnast Simone Biles, as well as lesser-known champions like Toni Stone, the first woman to play baseball in a professional men's league, and skateboarding pioneer Patti McGee. The book also contains information on topics that sporty women want to know about such as muscle anatomy, a timeline of women's participation in sports, pay and media statistics for female athletes, and influential women's teams. Women in Sports celebrates the success of the tough, bold, and fearless women who paved the way for today's athletes.

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