Women in Sports

Currently the highest paid women's athlete

Football and basketball consume 80% of NCAA DI athletic budgets

Earnings of highest paid male athlete in 2013

This Olympic swimmer won 6 gold medals, recently suffered a spinal injury in skiing accident

First woman to win three gold medals (happened in 1960).

Earnings of highest paid female athlete in 2013

Amendment that said no American woman could be denied from participating in sports

This University's Women's Basketball Team won 90 consecutive games

These sisters competed against each other for the U.S. Open Championship in 2001

She led the U.S. to basketball gold in 1984 Olympics

More than 90,000 fans in the stands watched the U.S. Women's Soccer team defeat what country

Girls participating in sports have a lower self esteem and have negative body images.  

Title IX requires equal spending on women's and men's sports

Currently the second highest paid female athlete

2/3 of high school girls play sports, 50% of the boys play sports

Gertrude Ederle was the first woman to do this