This A-to-Z format biographical dictionary covers notable American women in sports - both athletes and coaches - and is inclusive regionally, chronologically, and multiculturally.

Table of Contents

• American Women in Sports
• A
• Ackerman, Valerie
• Akers, Michelle
• Albright, Tenley
• Ali, Laila
• Andersen, Lisa
• Ashford, Evelyn
• Austin, Tracy
• B
• Babashoff, Shirley
• Bauer, Sybil
• Bell, Judy
• Benoit Samuelson, Joan
• Berenson, Senda
• Berg, Patty
• Blair, Bonnie
• Blazejowski, Carol
• Bleibtrey, Ethelda
• Borders, Ila
• Brisco-Hooks, Valerie
• Brough, Louise
• Butcher, Susan
• C
• Capriati, Jennifer
• Carillo, Mary
• Carpenter-Phinney, Connie
• Caulkins, Tracy
• Chadwick, Florence
• Chastain, Brandi
• Clement, Amanda
• Coachman, Alice
• Connolly, Maureen
• Cook, Willa McGuire
• Cooper, Cynthia
• Croteau, Julie
• Curtis, Ann
• D
• de Varona, Donna
• Decker Slaney, Mary
• DeFrantz, Anita
• Devers, Gail
• Didrikson, Babe
• Dragila, Stacy
• Driscoll, Jean
• E
• Ederle, Gertrude
• Edwards, Teresa
• Evans, Janet
• Evert, Chris
• F
• Fernandez, Lisa
• Fleming, Peggy
• Flowers, Vonetta
• Fraser, Gretchen
• G
• Gera, Bernice
• Gibb, Roberta
• Gibson, Althea
• Golden, Diana
• Granato, Cammi
• Gregory, Ann Moore
• Griffith Joyner, Florence
• Guthrie, Janet
• H
• Hamill, Dorothy
• Hamm, Mia
• Hansell, Ellen Ford
• Haworth, Cheryl
• Heiss, Carol
• Henie, Sonja
• Hill, Lynn
• Holdsclaw, Chamique
• Holm, Eleanor
• Houghton, Edith
• Hughes, Sarah
• Hyman, Flo
• I
• Inkster, Juli
• J
• Jackson, Nell
• Jacobs, Helen
• Jennings, Lynn
• Jones, Marion
• Joyce, Joan
• Joyner-Kersee, Jackie
• K
• Kamenshek, Dottie
• Kerrigan, Nancy
• King, Betsy
• King, Billie Jean
• King, Micki
• Krone, Julie
• Kuscsik, Nina
• Kwan, Michelle
• L
• Ladewig, Marion
• Lawrence, Andrea Mead
• Leslie, Lisa
• Lieberman, Nancy
• Lipinski, Tara
• Lopez, Nancy
• Lopiano, Donna
• Ludtke, Melissa
• M
• Marble, Alice
• McCormick, Pat
• McCutcheon, Floretta
• Meagher, Mary Terstegge
• Meyer, Debbie
• Meyers, Ann
• Miller, Cheryl
• Mitchell, Jackie
• Moore, Elisabeth
• Muldowney, Shirley
• Murdoch, Margaret
• N
• Navratilova, Martina
• Nelson, Maud
• Nyad, Diana
• O
• Oakley, Annie
• Oberg, Margo
• Outerbridge, Mary Ewing
• P
• Peppler, Mary Jo
• Pickett, Tidye, and Louise Stokes
• Postema, Pam
• R
• Rawls, Betsy
• Retton, Mary Lou
• Richardson, Dot
• Riddles, Libby
• Rigby, Cathy
• Riggin, Aileen
• Riley, Dawn
• Roberts, Robin
• Rudolph, Wilma
• S
• Saunders, Tricia
• Sears, Eleonora
• Seles, Monica
• Shain, Eva
• St. James, Lyn
• Staley, Dawn
• Stephens, Helen
• Stone, Toni
• Street, Picabo
• Strug, Kerri
• Suggs, Louise
• Summitt, Pat Head
• Switzer, Katherine
• Swoopes, Sheryl
• T
• Thompson, Jenny
• Torrence, Gwen
• Trason, Ann
• Tyus, Wyomia
• V
• Vare, Glenna
• W
• Wade, Margaret
• Washington, Ora
• White, Nera
• White, Willye
• Whitworth, Kathy
• Williams, Esther
• Williams, Venus and Serena
• Wills, Helen
• Woodard, Lynette
• Wright, Mickey
• Y
• Yamaguchi, Kristi
• Young, Sheila
• Recommended Sources on American Women in Sports