[ThePundit]

Who's everyone's favorite woman athelte of all time? Mine is Chris Evert. A hell of a tennis player and good looking to boot. Of course, Sharapova and Kournikova were much hotter than her but they weren't anywhere near the tennis player Evert was.

[MJHMarc]

I would have to go with Mia Hamm who was an inspiring soccer player and loving husband of Nomar. I am surprised that she didn't change her name to Mia Garciaparra. Anyway, she is one of my favorite athletes.

Venus Williams and Lisa Leslie are my second favorites.

The high-schooler who scored 100+ points gets an honorable mention.

[Lefty Noob]

I'll have to second Marc's vote for the greatest American soccer player of all time, Mia Hamm, loving WIFE of Nomar Gacriaparra. The records she set are seconded only by the influence she had on young women across the country. I see that kind of potential, a few years down the road, in Michelle Wie as well. Honorable mention to, although she was before my time, Babe Didrikson Zaharias (hope I spelled that right) -- the female equivelent of Jim Thorpe.

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by ThePundit

Who's everyone's favorite woman athelte of all time? Mine is Chris Evert. A hell of a tennis player and good looking to boot. Of course, Sharapova and Kournikova were much hotter than her but they weren't anywhere near the tennis player Evert was.

Come on now...Chrissy was very hot in her day...I had a big crush on her...

Okay others:

Olga Korbut during the 1972 Olympics...which lead to the whole gymnastics craze

Mary Decker Slaney beating the Russians in the 1,500 meters and 3,000 meters at the World Championship Games in Helinski 1983...televised at an ungoldy time in the wee hours of the morning

Mia Hamm...Saw her play live in the 1996 Olympics...and she scored a goal...

Hamill winning the gold in the 1976 games...

Tennis player Kathleen Horvath...Cause I met her and she was a really nice person...

Becky Hammon, the little guard for the Liberty's...she can hit those three pretty darn good...

Oh Suzy Favor-Hamilton...sub 4:00 Minute 1,500 meter runner (3.57.40 second only to Decker in US history) for the USA...(anyone ever seen her Swimsuit Calender?...she is/was a cutie...link below http://suzyfavorhamilton.com/photos/index.htm)

Unfortunately, she has not done well at the Championships or Olympics...

[blueandwhite]

She's known for so much more, but can I say Jill Kinmont?
she's incredibly inspirational, such an amazing person.
Nancy greene would be my second choice, named Canada's female athlete of the century in 1999. She won gold and silver medals at the 1968 Grenoble Olympics and overall World Cup titles in 1967 and 68. Won a total of 13 World Cup victories and that's a Canadian record. Retired at age 24, fresh faced and forever on the slopes.

[Sports Fan]

Julie Krone Is My Choice :d

[Trashed]

Maria Sharapova for her legs which make atheists believe that only a god could create things that perfect!

[ThePundit]

Originally Posted by Trashed

Maria Sharapova for her legs which make atheists believe that only a god could create things that perfect!

Julie Krone was a jockey, right? I also always liked Nancy Lopez, Ray Knight's wife. Not the most gorgeus woman in the world but a great golfer.

[MJHMarc]

Any Anna Benson fans out there? She doesn't play a sport unless you consider her occupation a sport (or a way of entertainment).

Everybody on this thread should see where their favorites rank at:http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/siforwomen/top_100/1/

You can thank me later for finding this site!

[Sports Fan]

Originally Posted by ThePundit

Julie Krone was a jockey, right? I also always liked Nancy Lopez, Ray Knight's wife. Not the most gorgeus woman in the world but a great golfer.

Yes, Julie Krone was a jockey and she Is the first woman Inducted in The National Horseracing Hall Of Fame as the winningest female jockey, with more than 3,000 wins. She was the only woman to ride a winner in a triple crown race when she took the 1993 Belmont Stakes aboard Colonial Affair.

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by MJHMarc

Any Anna Benson fans out there? She doesn't play a sport unless you consider her occupation a sport (or a way of entertainment).

Everybody on this thread should see where their favorites rank at:http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/siforwomen/top_100/1/

You can thank me later for finding this site!

I had almost forgotten some of the names on that Sports Illustrated list...and some of the picks make little sense...

For example it has Shirley Babashoff at 67 ahead of Kornelia Enders at 68...Enders destroyed Babashoff in the 1976 Olympics...so unless they are penalizing her for "bulking up the old East German way (drugs)"...the rating does not make sense...and if you are going to penalize her...then way have her on the list at all???

By the Way, Babashoff is now a US Postal Worker...a mailman (mailperson?)...and she still has some pretty hard feelings about the East German Swim team.

[legend]

I know I won't spell her name correctly, but during the seventies, the best all around gymnast was the Russian, Ludmilla Touresheva. She was great at everything, and graceful without having to re-invent the wheel, like Korbut and Nadia did. The best woman athlete of all time was Babe Didrickson-Zaharias, no one else is even close.

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by legend

I know I won't spell her name correctly, but during the seventies, the best all around gymnast was the Russian, Ludmilla Touresheva. She was great at everything, and graceful without having to re-invent the wheel, like Korbut and Nadia did. The best woman athlete of all time was Babe Didrickson-Zaharias, no one else is even close.

Ludmilla Tourischeva was a graceful competitor long before the sport went the way of the teen pixie acrobat...she competed in 3 Olympics and had 9 overall medals...4 of them gold.

Babe was in a league of her own...but much too long ago to really be a favorite, since few people around saw her compete...but talk about your multi sport athlete...gold medalist in track, dominant force of women's golf...now that's a span few can achieve...

[desertrat]

Jennie Finch, softball pitcher that played at Arizona and was part of the dominant olympic team in Athens.

[Gotham Dark Knight]

Originally Posted by desertrat

Jennie Finch, softball pitcher that played at Arizona and was part of the dominant olympic team in Athens.

We've been waiting for that one...she just had a kid too...




Along those lines...Softballer Dr. Dot Richardson...two time USA gold medalist shortstop...Dot is the pride and joy of Colonial High School ...(my former high school... )