female athletes

The history of the battle to keep Title IX out of college sports.

Before being pushed aside by the NCAA, the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women governed women’s college athletics.

How college basketball coach Pat Summitt transformed women's sports.

Women have been punching each other in the face (during boxing matches) since the early 1700s.

A lack of enforcement has blunted Title IX's transformative potential.

How a 37-word clause tucked inside a new education legislation reshape women’s sports forever.

The Columbus Pacesetters weren’t satisfied being an afterthought or a gimmick, so they bought their franchise and the ability to make decisions for themselves.

For women who play sports, there's often no way to win.

100 years ago, a tennis player shocked spectators with her “indecent” dress—not for the last time.

How the Toledo Troopers, the most dominant female football team of all time, met their match.

Wilma Rudolph won three Olympic golds and was among the first athletes to use her celebrity to fight for civil rights.

Cyclist Tillie Anderson shattered records, dominated her competition, and earned the world champion title.

Why is surfing still stuck in the 1960s when women have always done it?

'It’s about time,' said former doubles partner Angela Buxton.

Fifty years after Jazzercise was founded, it is still shaping how Americans work out—for better or for worse.

Kap wasn't the first, and he won't be the last.

The "bikini body" is out. But the pressure to maintain the ideal female physique lives on.

A Hungarian immigrant first brought the soccer style field kick to the NFL.

Her athletic performance in New York impressed onlookers of all colors and cracked opened the door for a new generation of Black players to come.

Trans Americans have taken to the courts for decades to fight against the notion that they are a threat.