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Alicia Meynell first Woman Jockey In England
Alicia Meynell, born in 1782 to a watch maker from Norwich; was said to be the first woman jockey in the history of London, England. It has been said she got her start with horses from her brother- in- law William Flint of Yorkshire. Through her brother-in-law, she met the man whom she would take to be her husband Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Thornton . He left her after being beat up for not paying his bet. She was the only woman to beat a man in jockey until 1934. -
Bloomer Girls Baseball
Was an era between 1890-1934 who really did not have any other teams to play against; instead roamed from town to town playing minor and major league men’s baseball teams. The teams were mostly intergraded having at least one male occupant on the team. In the beginning years the sport went from softball-like playing to that more like of baseball and eventually dwindling out when more and more men took interest in the sport. There were women like Jackie Mitchell who got a brief appearance in the -
Lizzie Arlington
Lizzie Arlington whose real name is Elizabeth Stroud was a woman who played in a minor league baseball team as well as a woman's baseball team in the late 1800s. Is regarded as the first female to play organized baseball. Her starting pay playing was a hundred dollars a week, first appearing in the summer of 1898. This was done in hopes that she would bring money to the box office. -
Alice Marie Coachman
Was the first African American woman to win a gold medal in the Olympics of 1948. The event she placed in was the high jump, for team USA. Her winning jump was just over five six, beating out their biggest rival Great Britian. Not only is she the first African American to win a medal in 1948, she was the only female to win a gold medal in this Olympics -
Andrea Mead Lawrence
Was the first American woman to win two alpine skier Olympic medals in the 1952 Winter Olympic games. The two events she won were Slalom and Giant Slalom. She competed in her prime in three Winter Olympic games and in two World championships. Gaining fame from the 1952 games where she had won her medals. -
Nadia Comaneci First female gymnast to get a perfect ten
Nadia Comaneci, is one of the most remembered and celebrated gymnast of all time. She has shattered so many world records as well as Olympic medals during her competition highlights. She is the first ever female gymnast to score a perfect ten.0. on a single gymnastic apparatus. She also hit her major break winning three gold medals in the 1976 Olympic games. -
Mary Lou Retton
Mary Lou Retton, was the first ever American to win an Olympic All-around gold medal in the 1984 Olympic games. She beat out the Russians by landing a solid ten.0 vault for the title. After this moment in history she became an over night success winning the hearts of all Americans. She was also the first ever woman in sports history to be on a Wheaties ceral box. -
Senda Berenson Abbott mother of women's basketball
Earlier as a child with no interest what so ever for athletics, Senda Berenson Abbott became to be known as the mother of basketball. After developing a gymnastics program earlier on in her athletic career, she found great interest in the new game of basketball created by James Naismith. After reading the rules, and realizing it was not quite fit to female standards. She modified the rules andthe standards for women’s basketbal in 1899. She was later inducted to the Basketball Hall of Fame. -
Dominque Moceanu
beam routine A member of the 1996 gold Olympic United States team was named as the youngest person to ever win a US national gymnastics championship. Not only did she win it in 1994, she came back and won it the next year as well. She is one of the most medaled gymnast in American History with several state, national, and Olympic medals. She competed this event at age thirteen. -
The magnificant seven
Is the name given to the seven United States gymnastics athletes who won the gold medal at the 1996 Olympic games. The members are Shannon Miller, Dominique Moceanu, Dominique Dawes, Kerri Strug, Amy Chow, Amanda Borden and Jaycie Phelps. What makes this also amazing is when Kerri Strug performed her second vault with a broken foot, helping the team claim the gold medal.
