Sports Illustrated - USA (2022-06)

35 JUNE 2022 Olympics; there was no Women’s World Cup or other major tournaments. But Gancitano and Wyant ascended the spiral st ...

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED 36 JOET TA CL ARK TRACK AND FIELD When Florida sophomore Talitha Diggs dashed across the finish line in 50.98 ...

CAROL HUTCHINS SOFTBALL It was a Saturday in 1976, a day Carol Hutchins will never forget. As a freshman basketball player at Mi ...

OF THEIR OWN LAST DANCE Hall (5) and Rutgers took on Texas in the final AIAW tournament championship game, held at the Palestra ...

39 JUNE 2022 For one decade, women’s college sports were governed by women. Then schools had to choose: THE AIAW OR THE NCAA BY ...

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED 40 buttons—we’re going to be number one we try harder—to fund their trip to the tourney. A few weeks before t ...

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SPORTS ILLUSTRATED 42 football has a tradition that goes back 100 years and has evolved into a sport that has great spectator ap ...

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SPORTS ILLUSTRATED 44 The AIAW had a deal to televise its champi- onship with NBC—until the network switched sides. On March 28, ...

TECHNICAL KNOCKOUT Janice Lawrence led the Lady Techsters in scoring during the first NCAA women’s basketball tournament in 1982 ...

TORCH CARRIER TI TL E^ WHERE WE’VE BEEN WHERE WE ARE WHERE WE’RE HEADING BY JAMIE LISANTI Motivated by former generations and bo ...

S ALLYSON FELIX TRACK AND FIELD A five-time Olympian and the most decorated U.S. track and field athlete in history, Felix is al ...

KIM WOOZY DIRECTOR, SKATE LIKE A GIRL A leader in the mission to advance women’s equality in action sports, Woozy helped advocat ...

49 JUNE 2022 BL AKE BOLDEN SCOUT, LOS ANGELES KINGS Bolden became the first Black woman to play professional hockey, in 2015, an ...

SEDONA PRINCE OREGON WOMEN’S BASKETBALL The 6' 7 " forward is internet famous for her viral TikTok video at the 2021 NCAA tourna ...

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OLIVIA MOULTRIE PORTLAND THORNS FC After winning a lawsuit disputing the NWSL’s age rule, the 15-year-old phenom became the leag ...

53 JUNE 2022 CLARISSA CHUN IOWA WOMEN’S WRESTLING COACH In 1998, Hawai‘i created the nation’s first girls wrestling high school ...

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED 54 IFEOMA ONUMONU NJ/NY GOTHAM FC Entering her sixth pro season, the 28-year-old forward is cofounder of the ...