Chelsea Fishman wants women’s sports to be taken more seriously. Fishman took what she learned at an equality summit in Australia during the FIFA Women’s World Cup last year to heart and will open Atlanta’s first women’s sports bar called Jolene Jolene next year.
A newly formed state Senate committee will look to ensure that female athletes have the right to participate on an even basis with their males counterparts.
Champion distance runner Lauren Fleshman says too many coaches assume — falsely — that what works for male athletes also benefits female athletes. Her memoir is Good for a Girl.
Harris scored the first points in Olympic women's basketball history and was the first Black woman inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, among other accolades. She turned the NBA down in 1977.
U.S. Olympic heptathlete Annie Kunz says tracking her monthly cycles and learning she needs to eat more and get more naps when she's fatigued has already improved her athletic performance.