Women's Sports History

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  1. 2. Who is the only female tennis player to have won all four Grand Slam tournaments in the same year?
  2. 4. wins the first of her three gold medals in figure skating.
  3. 5. USA Basketball creates a yearlong training program for the Olympic team in preparation for the 1996 Atlanta
  4. 8. Great Britain becomes the first individual female winner in an Olympic event.
  5. 9. wins 6 medals, raising her final career total to an unprecedented 18 Olympic medals, a record that stands until 2012.
  6. 10. wins 2-1
  7. 14. the first female player to sign a contract with a league affiliated with Major League Baseball
  8. 15. FIFA stages the first Women's World Cup in China, which the United States wins
  9. 17. All time NCAA scoring champion in women's basketball.
  10. 18. Who was the first woman to play in the Olympics?
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  1. 1. won the first Ladies' Singles title at Wimbledon.
  2. 2. wins the French Open to become the first black player to capture a Grand Slam title.
  3. 3. First woman to compete in the javelin throw in track and field
  4. 6. goes on to have a spectacular career
  5. 7. the first women's singles tennis champion.
  6. 11. Softball and women's soccer are included for the first time in the
  7. 12. American women win team gold soccer, softball and gymnastics, and in several other individual events.
  8. 13. Created by Billie Jean King a year after she won the "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match against
  9. 16. Which WNBA team does Brittney Griner play for?