Sports Archives - Infinite Women

Inez Robie Patterson

Philadelphia’s Inez Patterson integrated pools and encouraged other African-American girls to swim too

Pherenike (l. c. 388 BCE) was an athlete from Rhodes who, because she was a woman, could not compete in the Olympic Games and, as a married woman, was not allowed to even watch them. Defying these rules and risking the death penalty, she disguised herself as a man to train her son to win.

Hydna of Scione

Ancient Greek swimmer and diver given credit for contributing to the destruction of the Persian navy in 480 BCE

Gertrude Bell

Gertrude Bell (l. 1868-1926) was an archaeologist, travel writer, explorer, and political administrator.

Helen Parker

Helen Faye Parker was a legendary high school basketball coach and athletic administrator in Ashdown, Arkansas.

Dr Margaret Downing

Margaret Downing was a pioneer in women’s sports, especially basketball, in Arkansas in the second half of the twentieth century.

Bettye Wallace

Bettye Wallace was a long-time coach and athletic administrator who mentored countless women athletes in both tennis and volleyball while also advocating for greater athletic opportunities for women in Arkansas.

Lurlyne Greer Rogers

American basketball player in the 1940s and 1950s

Carolyn Moffatt

Carolyn Moffatt was a pioneering American women’s basketball coach in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.

Dr Josephine Flood

Josephine Flood was an archaeologist whose research highlighted the role of Bogong moths in the lives of Aboriginal people in southern highlands of New South Wales.