Tag: female-sports
If the W.N.B.A. is not roundly thrilled with her pregnancy, which became public earlier this month, the Los Angels Sparks' Candice Parker has decided she can live with that....
Kaysie Junco knows how to pull her own weight, and then some! She is a leader in the only state to sanction female high school weightlifting - so far....
When Lauren Clark-Johnson is silently preparing for her opponent, she can blend into a gym full of boys at a high school wrestling meet. Once a match begins, Clark-Johnson, one of the best girl wrestlers in the state, no longer blends in with the boys. She often beats them....
26-year-old Olympic pole vaulter Jenn Stuczynski has been named American Female Athlete of the Year by Track & Field News in its February edition, which is on newsstands now.
...
Kayla Palmberg's efforts helped the Boca Raton High School Trojans win the women's weightlifting competition over four other Palm Beach Schools. Florida is becoming a national leader in opportunities for female high school weightlifters....
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.
...
Former Olympic sprinter Marion Jones was not included on the President's official pardon list, which was released on Monday....
