Athletes
The most decorated American skier in World Championship history is
Mikaela Shiffrin
Women's basketball team with the most NCAA championships
The UConn Huskies (won 4 straight from 2013-2016)
The first official women's golf club
The St. Andrews Ladies Putting Club
The most followed women’s sport in the world is
Soccer
The U.S. Olympic Women's Ice Hockey Team medaled in _____ Olympic Winter Games
7 (The U.S. Women's Olympic Team has participated in every Olympic Winter Games since the first-ever women's ice hockey tournament in 1998)
The most decorated gymnast in history is
Simone Biles
The NCAA started holding championships for women’s sports and began offering women athletic scholarships after
Title IX
The first woman to swim the English Channel was
Gertrude Ederly
The ____ (women's or men's) 2021 US Open single final had the most viewership
Women first competed in the Olympic Games in _____
1900 (Paris)
The most decorated female swimmer in history is
Katie Ledecky
The three sports with their best viewership in over a decade during the 2022 NCAA championships were
Volleyball, basketball and gymnastics
The first woman to complete the Boston Marathon was
Kathrine Switzer under the name K.V. Switzer despite the race director’s attempt to remove her
The ______ (country) watches women’s sports the least
The United Kingdom
Women were first allowed to participate in running events at the ____ Olympics
1920
The most decorated athlete, male or female, in World Athletics Championships history is
Allyson Felix
The two California universities that played each other in the first collegiate women's basketball game were
Cal Berkeley and Stanford
The first professional women’s sports league in the United States was
The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
The most-watched tennis match in ESPN history
Serena Williams' final match at the US Open
Women were allowed to compete in all events that men could in _____
2012
Female collegiate athlete in the top ten of the NIL 100 list
Livvy Dunne
The university which offered the first “nationally advertised” four-year athletic scholarship for women was
The University of Chicago
The first competitor to score more than 7,000 points in the heptathlon was
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
_____ million Americans watched the 2019 Women’s World Cup Final
14
The most decorated women’s beach volleyball player of all time is ____
Kerri Walsh Jennings