Tag: female-sports
Since 2005, Streacker has entered about 20 powerlifting competitions. She competes in the 13-15 age group, 165-pound weight class, where she has bench pressed as much as 245 pounds and deadlifted as much as 340 pounds....
Coach Mike Denmon, who was a powerlifter at Bridge City in the 1980s, said the girls lifting today are so strong, they could have beaten him back then. He said what has helped Bethani become successful is a gymnastics background....
Northern California has become a hotbed for the burgeoning sport of female high school wrestling....
At 50 years old, Marti Greer begins each day with a two-hour workout to keep in shape for about a dozen sprint- and intermediate-level triathlons and one Iron Man triathlon a year.
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Former Olympic sprinter Marion Jones was not included on the President's official pardon list, which was released on Monday....
Bianca Garza is a junior at Andrew Hill High School (San Jose, California) who plays on the varsity football team as a defensive lineman. She led the junior varsity team with 10 sacks last season and benches 200 pounds despite weighing just 135 pounds....
"I'll definitely take a little break," she said. "The 2012 Olympics are the huge question. When you've had a passion and had goals and you've realized them, it's hard to make new goals. I'll have to decide whether I want to push for another four years."...
Disgraced track star Marion Jones says she often thinks she would have won gold medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics even if she hadn't taken performance-enhancing drugs. ...
Women's Professional Soccer inherits a few players and a couple of teams from the WUSA, which ceased full operations after the 2003 season. Abby Wambach will return to the Washington Freedom while Kristine Lilly will remain with the Boston Breakers....
A handful of young women are playing competitive tackle football. ...
