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One of the first, if not the first was Babe Didrikson Zaharias. She won gold medals in the 80 meter dash and javelin in the 1932 Summer Olympics. She was the first women to play in a PGA event, the 1938 Los Angeles Open. She won the U.S. Women's Amateur Golf Championship and the British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship. She is in the Women's Golf Hall of Fame. She played organized softball and Baseball and was a very good diver and bowler. The magazine Sports Illustrated named her Female Athlete of the 20th Century and the Associated Press named her Woman Athlete of the 20th Century.

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Maria Ester Audion Bueno, won the title of being first women player (14 years) for her country, Brazil, started playing tennis at early age and without any formal training won her first tournament at the age of 12. She was also the first non-American women to capture Wimbledon and U.S Championships. In her career, she won the singles titles at Wimbledon three times and U.S. Championships for the four times She also won twelve Grand Slam championships as a double player with six different partners. Again in 1960, she became the first women to win the women's doubles title at all four Grand Slam tournament in a year.

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Mia Hamm was the FIRST WOMAN soccer player. She was an olympic gold medalist too.

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Jayne Kennedy is the first African American female sportscaster on NBC

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it was rebbeca hasher.

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Shamika Williams

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