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March is Women History Month | Women in Sports

3/10/2023

 
March is Women History Month and we want to pay tribute to some trailblazer women who made it possible for women's sports.

Lizzie Arlington - first woman to believed to have played on a men's professional team, appearing for the Philadelphia Reserve in 1989.

Amanda Clement - At the age of 16, Amanda becomes the first female ever paid umpire in baseball in 1904.

Marcella Sanborn - "The First True 'Star' of Women's Football" playing for the first women's tackle football team in the 1960's.

Patricia Palinkas - First woman to play pro male football, debuting in 1970 as a holder for her placekicker husband on the Orlando Panthers.

Billie Jean King - former top-ranked tennis player in the world ensured that US Open would give equal prize to women and men.

Florence Griffith Joyner - set world records in the 1988 Olympics for the 100 and 200-meter dash, both still stand today.

Alice Coachman was the first Black woman to win an Olympic gold medal in the 1948 Olympic games for the high jump.

Mia Hamm - First female US soccer player, medaling in the Women's FIFA World Cup in 1991.

Rosabelle Sinclaire - established the first women's Lacrosse team in the US at Bryn Mawr School in 1926.

#womeninhistory #womeninsports #womenshistorymonth #womenhistorymonth #sports #sportshistory #MakingWaves

https://baseballhall.org/women-in-baseball

https://www.lofficielusa.com/politics-culture/history-making-female-athletes-sports-world-record-womens-history-month-simone-biles-serena-williams

​https://www.ussoccer.com/history/timeline



 

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