Game changers: the unsung heroines of sports history

1964 Japanese volleyball team -- 1976 Yale crew team -- 1984 Cuban national women's basketball team -- Abby Hoffman -- Alfreda Jackson, Ruth Harris, Clementine Redmond, Lillian Hardy -- Alice Coachman -- Alice Marble -- Alison Jane Hargreaves -- All American Red Heads -- Althea Gibson -- Andrea Jaeger -- Anita DeFrantz -- Anke-Eve Goldmann -- Ann Koger -- Annie Smith Peck -- AnnMaria De Mars -- Arlene Blum -- Babe Didrikson Zaharias -- Bakersfield Junior College women's swim team -- Barbara Polk Washburn -- Bernice Gera -- Bernice Sandler -- Betty Cook -- Betty Robinson -- Billie Jean King and the Battle of the Sexes -- Briana Scurry -- Carol Rose and Theresa Sams -- Cathy Rush/Immaculata College -- Chicago Daily Defender 17th annual Handicap Bowling Tournament of 1965 -- Chris Von Saltza -- Christy Martin -- Conchita Cintrón -- Constance Applebee -- Debi Thomas -- Denise McCluggage -- Diana Nyad -- Diane Crump -- Dick, Kerr's Ladies FC -- Donna de Varona -- Dorothy Wise -- Earlene Brown -- Edith Green -- Edith Houghton -- Eleanor Holm Jarrett -- Elspeth Beard -- Emma Gatewood -- Enriqueta Basilio -- Eunice Kennedy Shriver -- Evonne Goolagong Cawley -- Fanny Bullock Workman -- Florence Arthaud -- Florence Leontine "Pancho" Barnes -- Gabriela Anderson-Schiess -- Gertrude Ederle -- Gladys Heldman -- Gretchen Fraser -- Helme Suuk -- Isabel Lethem -- Jackie Tonawanda -- Janet Collins -- Janet Guthrie -- Jean Balukas -- Joan Weston -- Joan Whitney Payson -- Joe Carstairs -- Joyce Walker -- Junko Tabei -- Jutta Kleinschmidt -- Kathrine Switzer -- Kathryn "Kathy" Kusner -- Kay Yow -- Keiko Fukuda -- Kim Cespedes -- Kim Gilbert -- Kim and Sylvia Green -- Kinue Hitomi -- Kitty O'Neil -- Korean deep sea divers --

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