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• Stand Up and Shout Out

  Women's Fight for Equal Pay, Equal Rights, and Equal Opportunities in Sports

  Steidinger, Joan

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  Today, women have greater opportunities to participate in sport than ever before, particularly due to the passage of Title IX in 1972. Yet, despite all this growth, women still struggle to hold leadership positions, become coaches of both girls and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Women in Sports

  Edwards, Sue Bradford,

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  Women have made a difference in every field imaginable, and they continue to do so today. Women's Lives in History introduces readers to dozens of these remarkable people. Women in Sports features groundbreaking figures in golf, basketball, soccer,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Title IX Levels the Playing Field

  Axon, Rachel

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  Learn more about the landmark 1972 law that changed women's sports forever. The title also features informative sidebars, a glossary, and further resources. Discusses the creation of and continuing work focused on Title IX, which requires that girls…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Women in the Olympics

  Rule, Heather

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  Learn more about the accomplishments of the greatest female Olympic athletes from around the world.

• Greatest Female Athletes of All Time

  Kortemeier, Todd, 1986-

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  Learn more about the best of the best in the history of women's sports.

• Women, Horse Sports and Liberation

  Equestrianism and Britain From the 18th to the 20th Centuries

  Munkwitz, Erica

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  This book is the first, full-length scholarly examination of British women's involvement in equestrianism from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries, as well as the corresponding transformations of gender, class, sport, and national…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• US Women Win the World Cup

  Trusdell, Brian

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  The US team not only won the Women's World Cup, but they also took women's sports to an entirely new level in 1999. They proved that women's teams could sell tickets, excite and entertain, and succeed to the greatest extent. Learn more about the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Simone Manuel

  Swimming Star

  Schwartz, Heather E.,

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  Simone Manuel is one of the country's best female athletes. Learn about her childhood, the challenges she has overcome, and this swimmer's greatest accomplishments. Get the inside scoop on gold-medal-winning Olympic appearance.

• Carli Lloyd

  Soccer Star

  Schwartz, Heather E.,

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  Carli Lloyd is one of the country's best female athletes. Learn about her childhood, the challenges she has overcome, and this soccer star's greatest accomplishments. Get the inside scoop on her Olympic and World Cup wins.

• Women Athletes

  Gordon, Sherri Mabry,

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  It's hard to believe, but there was a time not long ago when girls and women were discouraged from participating in sports. Thanks to the women who ignored society's rules and also to a piece of legislation called Title IX, girls in the United…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sisterhood

  the 99ers and the Rise of U.s. Women's Soccer

  Goldman, Rob

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  For legions of soccer fans, the players on the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team are the game's standard-bearers. Together their accomplishments include four World Cup titles and four Olympic gold medals. Within five years of their inaugural match…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sum It Up

  a Thousand and Ninety-eight Victories, a Couple of Irrelevant Losses, and a Life in Perspective

  Summitt, Pat Head

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  Pat Summitt, the all-time winningest coach in NCAA basketball history and bestselling author of Reach for the Summitt and Raise The Roof, tells for the first time her remarkable story of victory and resilience as well as facing down her greatest…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Seeing Serena

  Marzorati, Gerald

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  A riveting, revealing portrait of tennis champion and global icon Serena Williams that combines biography, cultural criticism, and sports writing to offer "a deep, satisfying meditation" (The New York Times) on the most consequential athlete of her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• All in

  An Autobiography

  King, Billie Jean

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  “A story about the personal strength, immense growth, and undeniable greatness of one woman who fearlessly stood up to a culture trying to break her down.”—Serena Williams In this spirited account, Billie Jean King details her life's journey to find…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• My Greatest Save

  the Brave, Barrier-breaking Journey of a World-champion Goalkeeper

  Scurry, Briana, 1971-

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  A deeply moving and painfully honest memoir from the trailblazing, World Cup–winning, Olympic gold medalist, and US Women's soccer goalie Briana Scurry. Briana Scurry was a pioneer on the US Women's National Team. She won gold in Atlanta in 1996,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wolfpack

  How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power, and Change the Game

  Wambach, Abby

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  Based on her inspiring, viral 2018 commencement speech to Barnard College's graduates in New York City, New York Times bestselling author, two-time Olympic gold medalist and FIFA World Cup champion Abby Wambach delivers her empowering rally cry for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Love and Justice

  a Story of Triumph on Two Different Courts

  Irons, Maya Moore

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  In the tradition of Just Mercy, an inspirational memoir by WNBA star Maya Moore Irons and her husband, Jonathan Irons, who she helped free from a wrongful conviction. A journey for justice turned into a love story when Maya Moore, one of the WNBA's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dust Bowl Girls

  the Inspiring Story of the Team That Barnstormed Its Way to Basketball Glory

  Reeder, Lydia

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  During the drought and financial crisis of the 1930s, Oklahoma basketball coach Sam Babb traveled from farm to farm recruiting talented, hardworking young women and offering them a chance at a better life: a free college education in exchange for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Golden Girls of Rio

  Smith, Nikkolas, 1985-

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  The summer Olympic games in Rio were groundbreaking for so many American women athletes.The US gymnastics team completely dominated, led by fierce little Simone Biles, the most decorated gymnast of all time. Katie Ledecky shattered long-held…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• 25 Women Who Dared to Compete

  Stanborough, Rebecca,

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  Discover 25 women who challenged the stereotypes of what it means to play like a girl. These women worked to even the playing field and steppped up to score points for women all around the world.