Because the battle is won in the trenches
There’s a lady that will. Meet Cynisca (aka Kyniska of Sparta). Denied from chariot racing because she was a woman, she found a way to circumvent the rules honestly and still win. She became the first woman to win at the Olympic Games. Now, that’s one smart cookie and a lesson for the fellas that you can’t keep a good woman down!
Source: Olympics
Source: OfficialHoophall
Pearl Moore = 4,061 collegiate points from 1975 to 1979
Caitlyn Clark = 3,650 collegiate points from 2020 to present day
Clark is -411 points to hold the real collegiate record
However, it is amazing that the top two collegiate basketball scorers will both be women in just a matter of days. Way to go, ladies!
Source: The Players’ Tribune
In honor of National Girls & Women In Sports Day as well as Black History Month, here is a short list that is inclusive of all women who paved the way for those women who are still paving the way for our future.
1875 – Wellesley College opened with a gymnasium for exercising and a lake for ice skating and the first rowing program for women.
1876 – Nell Saunders defeated Rose Harland in the first United States women’s boxing match, receiving a silver butter dish as her prize.
1882 – At the YWCA in Boston, the first athletic games for women were held.
1887 – Ellen Hansell was crowned the first Women’s Singles tennis champion at the U.S. Open.
1898 – Lizzie Arlington became the first woman to sign a professional baseball contract, appearing in her first professional game pitching for the Philadelphia Reserves.
1941 – The first women’s intercollegiate lacrosse game was held between Sweet Briar College and The College of William and Mary in 1941.
1953 – Toni Stone, also known by her married name Marcenia Lyle Alberga, was the first of three women to play Negro Baseball League, and thus the first woman to play as a regular on an American big-league professional baseball team.
1971 – Cheryl White, an American, became the first black female jockey.
1996 – The WNBA was founded.
1999 – The WPFL was formed.
2007 – The CWHL was founded with the NWHL formed 8 years later in 2015.