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A-C

• Alcott, Amy, golf
• Ashford, Evelyn, track and field
• Austin, Tracy, tennis
• Baiul, Oksana, figure skating
• Berg, Patricia Jane, golf
• Blair, Bonnie, speed skating
• Bradley, Pat, golf
• Brisco-Hooks, Valerie, track and field
• Butcher, Susan, sled dog racing
• Capriati, Jennifer, tennis
• Carner, JoAnne, golf
• Cawley, Evonne Goolagong, tennis
• Chadwick, Florence swimming
• Clijsters Elke, tennis player
• Clijsters, Kim, tennis player
• Coachman, Alice, track and field
• Coetzer, Amanda, tennis player
• Cohen, Sasha, figure skater
• Comaneci, Nadia, gymnastics
• Connolly, Maureen, tennis
• Cooper, Cynthia, basketball
• Court, Margaret Smith, tennis

D-G

• Davenport, Lindsay, tennis
• DeFrantz, Anita, olympics
• de Varona, Donna, swimming
• Devers, Gail, track and field
• Dod, Charlotte, tennis, golf, archery
• du Pont, Margaret Osborne, track
• Ederle, Gertrude, swimming
• Ellison, Mary Lillian, wrestling
• Evans, Janet, swimming
• Evert, Chris, tennis
• Fleming, Peggy, figure skating
• Freeman, Cathy, track and field
• Fraser, Dawn, swimming
• Gibson, Althea, tennis
• Golovin, Tatiana, tennis player
• Graf, Steffi, tennis
• Granato, Cammi, ice hockey
• Guthrie, Janet, auto racing

H-K

• Hamm, Mia, soccer player
• Hamill, Dorothy, figure skating
• Hantuchova, Daniela, tennis player
• Harding, Tonya, figure skating
• Harkleroad, Ashley, tennis player
• Henin-Hardenne, Justine, tennis player
• Heiss, Carol, figure skating
• Henie, Sonja figure skating
• Hingis, Martina, tennis
• Holdsclaw, Chamique, basketball
• Holm, Eleanor, swimming
• Hughes, Sarah, figure skater
• Hyman, Flo, volleyball
• Inkster, Juli, golf
• Jacobs, Helen Hull, tennis
• Jones, Marion, track and field
• Joyner, Florence Griffith, track and field
• Joyner-Kersee, Jackie, track and field
• Kerrigan, Nancy, figure skating
• King, Betsy, golf
• King, Billie Jean, tennis
• Korbut, Olga, gymnastics
• Kournikova, Anna, tennis player
• Kristiansen, Ingrid, running
• Krone, Julie, horse racing
• Kwan, Michelle, figure skating

L-N

• Lawrence, Andrea Mead , skiing
• Lenglen, Suzanne, tennis
• Leslie, Lisa, basketball
• Lieberman-Cline, Nancy, basketball
• Lipinski, Tara, figure skating
• Lobo, Rebecca, basketball
• Longo, Jeannie, cycling
• Lopez, Nancy, golf
• Lopiano, Donna, basketball, softball
• McCormick, Pat, diving
• McKinney, Tamara, skiing
• Meyer, Debbie swimming
• Meyers, Anne, basketball
• Miller, Cheryl, basketball
• Miller, Shannon, gymnastics
• Moody, Helen Wills, tennis
• Muldowney, Shirley, auto racing
• Navratilova, Martina, tennis
• Newby-Fraser, Paula, triathlete

P-S

• Pak, Se Ri, golf
• Retton, Mary Lou, gymnastics
• Rheaume, Manon, ice hockey
• Romary, Janice-Lee, fencing
• Rudolph, Wilma, running
• St. James, Lyn, auto racing
• Samuelson, Joan Benoit, running
• Schett, Barbara, tennis player
• Seles, Monica, tennis
• Sharapova Maria, tennis player
• Sheehan, Patty, golf
• Shaughnessy Meghann, tennis player
• Slaney, Mary Decker, running
• Sorenstam, Annika, golf
• Stephens, Helen, track and field
• Street, Picabo, skiing
• Strug, Kerri, gymnastics
• Suggs, Louise, golf
• Summitt, Pat, basketball
• Swoopes, Sheryl, basketball

T-Z

• Thompson, Jenny, swimming
• Torres, Dara, swimming
• Tyus, Wyomia, track and field
• Van Dyken, Amy, swimming
• Vare, Glenna Collett, golf
• Wagner, Lisa bowling
• Waitz, Grete, running
• Walsh, Stella, runner
• Webb, Karrie, golf
• White, Willye, track and field
• Whitworth, Kathy, golf
• Wightman, Hazel Hotchkiss, tennis
• Wie Michelle, golfer
• Williams, Serena, tennis
• Williams, Venus, tennis
• Witt, Katarina, figure skating
• Wright, Mickey, golf
• Yamaguchi, Kristi, figure skating
• Young, Sheila, speed skating, cycling
• Yow, Kay, women's basketball coach
• Zaharias, Babe Didrikson, golf, baseball, track and field

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