The Athlos Track Meet Is Returning in 2025. That’s a Win for Women’s Sports
The all-women’s Athlos NYC track meet that put a buzz into the end of the track and field season last year is coming back for ...
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Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Sullivan Award as the nation's top amateur athlete, as well as USA Track & Field's Jesse Owens Award in 1986 and '87. In 1999, she was named the greatest female athlete of the 20th century by Sports ...
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Mabel Staton, DePaul athlete who became Team USA's only female long jumper at the 1952 Olympics, dies at 92
She was 92. Staton, who went by the name of Mabel Landry when she attended DePaul in the 1950s, before the school had a women’s track team, was inducted into the university’s athletic Hall of ...