the hall of her
Behind every photo is a legacy.
This collection honors the women who changed the game. Through their achievements, resilience, and leadership, they have helped shape the future of women's sports and inspire fans around the world.
Learn more about each woman and the impact she's made.
Alex Morgan is a retired American soccer forward and one of the most influential figures in the sport's history, having played for the USWNT and San Diego Wave. She finished her USWNT career with 123 goals, fifth all-time, along with 53 career assists, ninth all-time in U.S. history, while captaining the team 23 times.
Althea Gibson became the first Black woman to win Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in the late 1950s. She broke racial and gender barriers in tennis simultaneously, paving the way for generations of Black athletes in predominantly white sports.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias is an unprecedented multi-sport athlete who excelled in track & field, basketball, and golf, she shattered the notion that women couldn't compete at the highest levels of athleticism across multiple disciplines.
Billie Jean King's victory over Bobby Riggs in the 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" match, combined with her tireless advocacy, forced the world to take women's tennis seriously and was instrumental in pushing for equal prize money in sports.
FloJo set world records in the 100m and 200m at the 1988 Seoul Olympics that still stand to this day. She redefined what was considered physically possible for women in sprinting while also bringing a bold, glamorous personal style that made women's track and field impossible to ignore.
Kathrine Switzer became the first woman to officially run the Boston Marathon in 1967, even as a race official tried to physically remove her, she sparked a movement that led to women being formally allowed to compete in long-distance running.
Lusia Harris was dubbed the "Queen of Basketball" and was so dominant in the women's game that she became the only woman ever officially drafted by an NBA team (the New Orleans Jazz in 1977) and was central to the creation of women's college basketball as a recognized sport, eventually earning a spot in the Basketball Hall of Fame.
Manon Rheaume became the first woman to play in a North American major professional sports league by appearing in an NHL preseason game for the Tampa Bay Lightning in 1992, she cracked open the door for women in hockey and inspired the growth of women's professional hockey globally.
Serena Williams is widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time, retiring in 2022 with 23 Grand Slam singles titles and four Olympic golds, after a career that began when she turned pro at just 14.
Shannon MacMillan is a former U.S. women's national soccer team forward. She played for the United States women's national soccer team from 1994 to 2006, helping the team win gold at the 1996 Summer Olympics and silver at the 2000 Summer Olympics, on top of the 1999 World Cup title.
Sonja Henie was a Norwegian figure skater who dominated the sport with three consecutive Olympic gold medals (1928, 1932, 1936). She almost single-handedly transformed figure skating from a niche competition into a global spectacle, and then leveraged her fame into a Hollywood career that made female athletes visible in mainstream culture in a way that had never happened before.
University of Colorado Boulder and Colorado State University are credited with playing the first serious women's rugby game in the United States.
Wilma Rudolph was a Black woman born prematurely in pre-Civil Rights Tennessee who overcame infantile paralysis caused by the poliovirus that caused her to wear a leg brace until she was 12. The odds were fiercely against her becoming a worldwide track superstar. Despite every obstacle, she became a record-breaking Olympian and remains a legend in the running world. In 1960, Rudolph became the first American woman to win three gold track and field medals in a single Olympics Games.