Women Athletes Posters “M...-N...-”
for social studies and physical education classrooms, home schoolers, fans.

Alice Marble
b. 9-28-1913; Beckwourth, CA
d. 12-13-1990; Palm Springs

Alice Marble, a World No. 1 American tennis player who won 18 Grand Slam championships between 1936–40: 5 in Singles, 6 in Women's Doubles, and 7 in Mixed Doubles.

After retiring from professional tennis Alice Marble was an associate editor for DC Comics and credited as an Associate Editor on Wonder Woman. She also created the “Wonder Women of History” feature for the comics, which told the stories of prominent women of history in comic form.

During WWII she also was a spy for the U.S. with her mission to obtain Nazi financial data through contact with a former lover who was a Swiss banker. She was shot in the back by Nazi agents but managed to survive. See Courting Danger.

Alice Marble was also instrumental with the integration of tennis by supporting Althea Gibson. Her editorial in the July 1, 1950, issue of American Lawn Tennis Magazine read, in part, “Miss Gibson is over a very cunningly wrought barrel, and I can only hope to loosen a few of its staves with one lone opinion. If tennis is a game for ladies and gentlemen, it's also time we acted a little more like gentle-people and less like sanctimonious hypocrites.... If Althea Gibson represents a challenge to the present crop of women players, it's only fair that they should meet that challenge on the courts.” Marble said that, if Gibson were not given the opportunity to compete, “then there is an ineradicable mark against a game to which I have devoted most of my life, and I would be bitterly ashamed.”

Tamara McKinney, TIME Magazine

Tamara McKinney
b. 10-16-1962; Lexington, KY, raised in Squaw Valley, CA

Tamara McKinney, World Cup alpine ski racer with the U.S. Ski Team from 1978-89, won four World Cup season titles, most notably the 1983 overall.

Shannon Miller
b. 3-10-1977; Rolla, MO - raised in Edmond, OK

Shannon Miller is the most “decorated gymnast, male or female, in U.S. history”. She is also the most successful American athlete, at the 1992 Barcelona Games, winning 5 medals.

Shirley Muldowney
b. 6-19-1940; Schenectady, New York

Shirley Muldowney, the “First Lady of Drag Racing”, is a pioneer in professional auto racing.

Martina Navratilova, Photographic Print

Martina Navratilova
b. 10-18-1956; Prague, Czechoslovakia

Martina Navratilova, who fled Czechoslovakia at age 18, has been called “the greatest tennis player of all time.”

Diana Nyad
b. 8-22-1949; New York City

Long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad is noted for her world-record endurance records that include swimming from Bimini to Florida and swimming around Manhattan Island.