by WOH Manager | Feb 20, 2015
With more than 3,700 career wins, Julie Krone is the leading woman Thoroughbred horse racing jockey of all time. Raised on a horse farm in Eau Claire, Michigan, Krone began riding horses at an early age and won her first horse show when she was five years old. At the...
by WOH Manager | Feb 20, 2015
As the first woman to officially enter the Boston Marathon, Kathrine Switzer broke the gender barrier and paved the way for women in running. Born into a military family stationed in Germany, Switzer later attended Syracuse University, earning a B.A. from the Newhouse...
by WOH Manager | Feb 20, 2015
Babe Didrikson was the child of Norwegian immigrants. Reared in poverty in South Texas, she began her extraordinarily versatile athletic career in high school basketball. She soon found that few sports opportunities were open to women. In fact, in the 1920s the trend...
by WOH Manager | Feb 20, 2015
At the age of thirteen, Donna de Varona became the youngest competitor at the 1960 Olympic Games. Within the next four years, she broke an unprecedented 18 world swimming records and won two Olympic Gold Medals. By age seventeen, she was voted Most Outstanding Female...
by WOH Manager | Feb 20, 2015
The first American woman ever to win three gold medals in the Olympics, Wilma Rudolph overcame major obstacles to make her mark in the record books and in life. Rudolph contracted severe polio as a child. By age 16, she was an All-State basketball player and a bronze...
