by Michele Genthon | Sep 5, 2015 | Business and Economics, FIRST WOMEN, Sports and Adventure
Serena Williams is favored to win the U.S. Open. If she does she will have a calendar Grand Slam: winning the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and U.S. Open in the same year. She will be the first player to do this since Steffi Graf in 1988. Serena is probably...
by Michele Genthon | Sep 9, 2013 | FIRST WOMEN, Sports and Adventure
Most First Women To. . .help those who follow them, but some women fight battles that improve whole classes of women. Billie Jean King was a flagbearer for all girls who love athletics. Billie Jean King’s tennis career spans the decades of the 1960’s and...
by Michele Genthon | Aug 5, 2013 | FIRST WOMEN, Sports and Adventure
Althea Gibson wasn’t fond of school and thought nothing of skipping classes; but she was dedicated to tennis, even though her family had to wait until dark to find practice time, after all the white people had left the court,. That practice in the semi-dark was a...
