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This One Is On Us

Source: HAIL_ViennaVA Well, Bill Burr was right. Well, in many ways, he still is. We did show up for the Women’s March Madness this year. So much for those idiots who think women’s sports are boring. We made it past 9.9 million viewers. But we still have some work to do in supporting each other,… Continue reading This One Is On Us

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.