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page 120th-century African-American sportswomen
Serena Williams
American tennis player (1981)
Venus Williams
American tennis player (born 1980)
Florence Griffith Joyner
American track and field athlete (1959-1998)
Wilma Rudolph
American athlete (1940–1994)
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
American track and field athlete
Marion Jones
American athlete
Althea Gibson
American tennis player (1927-2003)
Laila Ali
American television personality and retired professional boxer
Carmelita Jeter
American female 100m sprinter
Evelyn Ashford
American sprinter
Gail Devers
American athletics competitor, sprinter, hurdler
Lisa Leslie
American basketball player
Alice Coachman
American high jumper (1923–2014)
Christen Press
American soccer player
Zina Garrison
American tennis player
Wyomia Tyus
American sprinter
Tianna Madison-Bartoletta
American long jumper
Gwen Torrence
American sprinter
Lauryn Williams
American sprint athlete
Michelle Carter
American shot putter
Lolo Jones
American athletics competitor and bobsledder
Sheryl Swoopes
American basketball player
Tamika Catchings
American Hall of Fame basketball player
Maya Moore
American basketball player
Teresa Edwards
American basketball player
Nia Ali
American athletics competitor
Inger Miller
athletics competitor
Shannon Boxx
American soccer player
Chanda Rubin
American tennis player
Chaunté Lowe
American high jumper
Foluke Akinradewo
American volleyball player
Dawn Harper-Nelson
American hurdler
Torri Edwards
American sprinter
Dawn Staley
Dawn Michelle Staley is an American basketball coach and former player who is the head coach for the South Carolina Gamecocks women's basketball team. A point guard, she played college basketball for the Virginia Cavaliers and spent eight seasons in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), primarily with the Charlotte Sting. Staley also played on the United States women's national basketball team, winning three gold medals at the Olympic Games from 1996 to 2004, and was the head coach of the team that won an Olympic gold medal in 2021. Widely considered to be one of the greatest players and coaches in the history of the sport, she is the only person to win the Naismith Award as both a player and a coach.
Natasha Hastings
American sprinter
DeLisha Milton-Jones
American basketball player
Mildred McDaniel
athletics competitor (1933-2004)
DeeDee Trotter
American athlete
Alice Brown
American sprinter
Steffi Jones
German football player, executive, and coach
Tina Thompson
American basketball player
Cynthia Cooper-Dyke
American basketball player and coach
Shenay Perry
American tennis player
Catherine Hardy Lavender
American Athletics competitor (1930–2017)
Lynette Woodard
American basketball player
Benita Fitzgerald-Brown
American hurdler (born 1961)
Briana Scurry
American soccer player
Debi Thomas
American figure skater and orthopedic surgeon
Yolanda Griffith
American basketball player
Cheryl Miller
American basketball player and coach (born 1964)
Mary Wineberg
athletics competitor
Muna Lee
American sprinter
Jacqueline Moore
American professional wrestler
Kristi Castlin
American hurdler
Lori McNeil
American tennis player
Barbara Ferrell
American athletics competitor (born 1947)
Monique Henderson
American 400 meters runner
Willye White
American athlete – long jumper and sprinter (1939–2007)
Shannon Johnson
basketball player
Vonetta Flowers
bobsledder