Legendary Tennessee women’s head basketball coach Pat Summitt is stepping down after 38 seasons with the Lady Volunteers. Summitt will be named an honorary head coach emeritus and...
President Obama Announces Patricia “Pat” Summitt as a Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release April 19, 2012
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, President Barack Obama announced Patricia “Pat” Summitt, former head coach...
Photo credit: © Phyllis Ewen
Original founders of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, photographed in the 1970s: (L-R) standing in back row: Wendy Sanford, Paula Doress-Worters,...
Feb 21, 2011
GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP)
Justine Siegal became the first woman to pitch batting practice in a major league spring training camp when she threw to the Cleveland Indians on Monday.
Not only...
WASHINGTON — When the whistle blew and the opening kickoff sailed through the air on a beautiful late-summer night, Natalie Randolph could finally take a deep breath and focus on the thing she...
Palmer brings 13 years of NBA officiating experience
May 13, 2010
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. -- A pioneer in refereeing, Violet Palmer has been named the Pac-10 Conference’s Coordinator of Women...
Kathleen Sebelius
21st Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services
A self-described "jock" who shined on the basketball court, where she was team captain, and in field...
Judy Sweet, standing with Bernell Hooker, Founder and CEO of Images of Us Sports was honored in 2006 for the IOU Sports Lifetime Achievement Award in Milwaukee, WI.
Ms. Sweet will be inducted...
Milwaukee, WI - The All American Girls Professional Baseball League, "Power of the Human Spirit Luncheon" honored local and national women. The 1992 film A League of...
Pictured from left to right are WNBA President Donna Orender, Sheila Johnson, Lincoln Holdings Chairman Ted Leonsis, Irene Pollin, Washington Sports and Entertainment Chairman Abe Pollin, and NBA...
