One of our goals, always, with Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America was that every woman could find “someone like me” in the book. During one of our speaking engagements (at the Kansas City Public Library), one little girl (about 10 years old) asked if there were any swimmers in the book. Another little girl (about the same age) asked if there were any soccer players. They were both looking for girls (women) like them. And, of course, the answer was yes. For we well recognize the important of sports for women, especially in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This month, we profile swimmer Gertrude Ederle and soccer player Mia Hamm.

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