Women in Sports Study Guide

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basketball 7x $214 avg J:5 DJ:2

J $100 1995 With Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Cheryl Miller & Anne Donovan entered the Hall of Fame for this sport in 1995

DJ $600 1996 In 1987, '89 & '91, coach Pat Summitt led the U. of Tennessee women's team to NCAA titles in this sport

J $100 1993 In 1986 Nancy Lieberman became the first woman to play this sport on a men's pro team

golf 5x 20.0% stumper $380 avg J:4 DJ:1

J $100 1987 Kathy Whitworth is the 1st woman to have earned over $1 million in this sport

DJ $600 1998 Kathy Whitworth was the first woman in this sport to win a million dollars in prize money

J $200 1992 Kathy Whitworth was this sport's leading money winner 8 times

Janet Evans 4x 66.7% stumper $1,067 avg J:1 DJ:2 FJ:1

J $400 1992 She was the only American woman to win Olympic gold in swimming in 1988

DJ $800 2000 At the '88 & '92 Summer Olympics, she swam away with gold medals in the 800-meter freestyle event

DJ $2,000 DD 1998 (Hi, I'm Summer Sanders.) At the 1990 Goodwill Games, I ended this swimmer's 4-year undefeated string in the 400 m. individual medley

Bonnie Blair 4x $500 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:1

J $300 1995 This speed skater was chosen Sports Illustrated's 1994 Sportswoman of the Year

DJ $800 1996 The speed skater honored by the Women's Sports Foundation in 1995 as one of its Sportswomen of the Year

FJ 1994 With 5, she's won more Olympic gold medals than any other U.S. female athlete

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Nadia Comaneci 3 Mary Lou Retton 3 figure skating 3 bodybuilding 3 the Iditarod 3 Boston Marathon 3 (Babe Didrikson) Zaharias 3 Zola Budd 2 Tara Lipinski 2 Steffi Graf 2 Soccer 2 Shirley Muldowney 2 Picabo Street 2 Peggy Fleming 2 Nancy Lopez 2 Muhammad Ali 2 Monica Seles 2 Mia Hamm 2 LPGA 2 Kerri Strug 2 Katarina Witt 2 Gymnastics 2 boxing 2 women's volleyball 2 Chris Evert Lloyd 2 Chris Evert 2

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