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• Fun fact: She wears the number 21 in honor of former American player Cammi Granato.
• Other occupations: She loves to ski. She actually comes from a family of skiers, her cousin being Chip Knight, 3 times Olympic champion in alpine skiing.

 ThessNews

29 Gabby Douglas

• Sport: Gymnastics – Women’s artistic gymnastics
• Career: 2008-2016
• Greatest achievement:
  • Participated in the 2012 Olympics in London, where she won 2 gold medals
  • Participated in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where she won one gold medal
  • First African American to become an Olympic individual all-around champion
  • First US gymnast to win gold in both individual all-around and team competitions at the same Olympics
  • In all, she won 10 gold medals and one silver medal during her career

 Billboard

• Fun fact: In 2016, the Mattel, Inc. company created a Barbie Gymnast doll in her effigy
• Other occupations: 
  • Author of Grace, Gold, and Glory: My Leap of Faith (2012)
  • Author of Raising The Bar (2013)
  • Reality TV star in Douglas Family Gold (2016)

 SB Nation

28 Michelle Wie

• Sport: Golf
• Start of career: 2005
• Greatest achievement:
  • Was named Laureus World Newcomer of the Year in 2004
  • Won the Rolex Annika Major Award in 2014

 Imgur

• Relationship: Married to Jonnie West (Director of Basketball Operations for the Golden State Warriors)
• Did you know: 
  • She was only 10 years old when she qualified for a USGA amateur championship, making her the youngest player to accomplish this feat.
  • Since the beginning of her career, she has been subject to several controversies, including her performances at men’s events, the sudden dismissal of her caddie in 2006 and an alleged wrist injury in 2007.

 Bellazon

27 Antonija Sandrić

• Sport: Basketball – Point guard
• Start of career: 2005
• Greatest achievement: 
  • Won both national championship and Croatian Cup in 2008 with the Jolly JBS club
  • Won the bronze medal at the 2009 Mediterranean Games with the national team
  • Participated in the 2012 Olympics in London

 Celebrity photos

• Relationship: Married to Croatian basketball player Marko Sandrić
• Other occupations: She focuses on her athletic career. She has received many modelling offers—after all, she was named the most beautiful female competitor at the 2012 Summer Olympics by Bleacher Report!—, but turned them all down.

 CNN

26 Paige VanZant

• Sport: MMA – Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu
• Start of career: 2012
• Greatest achievement:
  • One time champion of the UFC’s Fight of the Night
  • One time champion of UFC’s Performance of the Night
  • MMAjunkie.com’s 2019 January Submission of the Month

 cappingthegame.com

• Relationship: Married to professional MMA’s fighter Austin “The Gentleman” Vanderford
• Other occupations: 
  • Author of Rise: Surviving the Fight of My Life (2018)
  • Modeled for Nike and Columbia Sportswear
  • Participated in television competitions Dancing with the Stars and Chopped

 Reddit

25 Allison Stokke

• Sport: Track and field – Pole Vault
• Start of career: 2004
• Greatest achievement:
  • Championship record of 3.81 m (12 ft 6 in) in the 15-16 United States title in 2004
  • Broke the American record for a high school freshman with a vault of 3.86 m (12 ft 7 ³⁄₄ in) in 2004
  • Set a new high school sophomore record with 4.11 m (13 ft 5 ³⁄₄ in) in 2005
  • Won twice at the CIF California State Meet

 Pinterest

• Relationship: Married to American professional golfer Rickie Fowler
• Other occupations: Fitness model since 2015

 Ignore Limits

24 Sierra Blair-Coyle

• Sport: Rock climbing
• Start of career: 2008
• Greatest achievement:
  • Current Pan American Bouldering Champion
  • Was a World Cup Competitor from 2010 to 2018
  • Finished 1st at the 2018 Mesa Rim ProAM
  • Finished 1st at the 2019 Jackalope Fest
  • Finished 1st at the 2019 Bend Summer Comp

 Teen Vogue

• Did you know: In 2015, she was part of the AskMen’s Top 99 Most Outstanding Women
• Other occupations: She has a degree in marketing from Arizona State University

 Bloomberg

23 Lindsey Vonn

• Sport: Alpine ski racer – Downhill, Super-G, Giant slalom, Combined
• Career: 2000-2019
• Greatest achievement:
  • Won a gold medal in Downhill and a bronze medal in Super-G at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver
  • Won a bronze medal in Downhill at the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang
  • Won 8 World Championships medals (2 gold, 3 silver, and 3 bronze)
  • Won 3 Junior Worlds Ski Championships (2 silver and 1 bronze)

 Glamour

• Relationship: 
  • Married to former US Ski team athlete Thomas Vonn (2007-2011)
  • Dated golfer Tiger Woods (2012-2015)
  • Dated NFL assistant coach Kenan Smith (2016-2017)
  • Engaged to defenseman hockey player P.K.
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    Subban (2018-2020)
• Other occupations: 
  • As of 2014, she owned a small herd of cows on a farm in Austria

 SB Nation

22 Aly Raisman

• Sport: Gymnastics – Women’s artistic gymnastics
• Career: 2009-2020
• Greatest achievement:
  • Participated in the 2012 Olympics in London, where she won 3 medals (2 gold and one bronze)
  • Participated in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where she won 3 medals (one gold and 2 silver)
  • Won a total of 33 medals in her career
  • Won the Arthur Ashe Courage Award in 2018

 Footwear News

• Other occupations: Author of the memoir book Fierce: How competing for myself changed everything (2017)
• Media appearances:
  • Appeared in the 2017 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue
  • Did a cameo in the Charlie’s Angels reboot movie in 2019
  • Participated in the TV shows Dancing with the Stars (2013), Lip Sync Battle (2016) and Dear… (2020)
  • Appeared in the music video Girls Like You from Maroon 5 featuring Cardi B

 Le Soleil

21 Maria Sharapova

• Sport: Tennis
• Career: 2001-2020
• Greatest achievement:
  • Participated in the 2012 Olympics in London, where she won one silver medal in Singles
  • Won the Australian Open, Grand Slam Singles in 2004
  • Won the Wimbledon, Grand Slam Singles in 2004
  • Won the WTA Finals in 2004
  • Won the US Open, Grand Slam Singles in 2006
  • Won the French Open, Grand Slam Singles in 2012 and 2014

 SportsDekh

• Relationship: Engaged to British businessman Alexander Gilkes
• Other occupations: 
  • Created the Maria Sharapova Foundation
  • Author of her autobiography Unstoppable: My Life So Far (2017)
  • Created Sugarpova, a premium candy line, alongside Jeff Rubin, founder of international retailer IT’SUGAR

 DeviantArt

20 Whitney Miller

• Sport: Boxing
• Start of career: 2016

 withnlove.com

• Relationship: Engaged to entrepreneur and Onnit founder Aubrey Marcus
• Other occupations: 
  • Won the Miss United States title in 2012
  • Former professional Wakesurfer
  • Former MMA’s Jiu-Jitsu Brazilian fighter
  • Fitness Model
  • Reporter for Glory Kickboxing
  • Relationship coach, confidence mindset coach and 1 on 1 couples coach
  • Host of the True Sex and Wild Love podcast

 Reddit

19 Michelle Jenneke

• Sport: Athletics – Hurdler
• Start of career: 2008
• Greatest achievement:
  • Won the silver medal in the 100m hurdles and finished 4th place in the Medley relay at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics
  • Finished 5th in the 100m hurdles at the 2012 World Junior Championships
  • Finished 1st in the 100m hurdles at the 2016 Australian Championships

 Imgur

• Studies: Owns a mechatronics degree from Sydney University (combination of mechanical and electric engineering)
• Other occupations: 
  • A video of her dancing during her warm-up before her 100m hurdles at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics in Barcelona went viral on YouTube, accumulating more than 19 million views in one week, also doing the Tonight Show.
  • Model (appeared, among others, in the 2013 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue

 Bloomberg

18 Alex Morgan

• Sport: Soccer – Striker
• Start of career: 2007
• Greatest achievement:
  • Won a gold medal at the 2012 Olympics in London
  • US Soccer Female Athlete of the Year in 2012
  • FIFA World Player of the Year finalist in 2012
  • Won the FIFA Women’s World Cup in 2015 and 2019

 Health Magazine

• Relationship: Married to soccer player Servando Carrasco
• Other occupations: 
  • Co-author of the four-book series The Kicks (the two first books were released in 2013)
  • Appeared in several TV shows, films and music videos

 WTA Angels

17 Anna Kournikova

• Sport: Tennis
• Career: 1995-2003
• Greatest achievement:
  • Ranked #8 in the world in 2000
  • Ranked from time to time World #1 player while playing doubles
  • While playing doubles with Martina Hingis, she won 2 times the Grand Slam titles in Australia (1999 and 2002), and 2 times the WTA Championships (1999 and 2000)

 The New Daily

• Relationship: In a relationship with singer Enrique Iglesias since 2001
• Other occupations: 
  • Trainer for season 12 of the TV show The Biggest Loser
  • Global ambassador for the Population Services International’s “Five & Alive” program

 USA Today

16 Serena Williams

• Sport: Tennis
• Start of career: 1995
• Greatest achievement:
  • Won a gold medal in Doubles at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney
  • Won a gold medal in Doubles at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing
  • Won a gold medal in Doubles and a gold medal in Singles at the 2012 Olympics in London
  • Won 23 Grand Slam singles titles
  • Won 39 Grand Slam titles overall
  • Won the WTA Tour Championships 5 times

 NBC News

• Relationship: Married to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian
• Other occupations: 
  • Part-Owner of the professional American football team Miami Dolphins since 2009
  • Certified nail technician since 2010
  • CSO for British luxury automobile manufacturer Aston Martin
  • Par of the Board of Directors at SurveyMonkey
  • Made several appearances in TV shows and movies, including Trust Us with Your Life and Drop Dead Diva in 2012 and Ocean’s 8 in 2018

 USA Today High School Sports

15 Jennie Finch

• Sport: Softball – Pitcher
• Career: 1999-2010
• Greatest achievement:
  • Participated in the 2004 Olympics in Athens, where she won one gold medal
  • Participated in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, where she won one silver medal

 Famous People Today

• Relationship: Married to former MLB pitcher Casey Daigle
• Other occupations:
  • Became an ESPN expert commentator for National Pro Fastpitch and college softball games
  • Author of Throw Like a Girl: How to Dream Big and Believe in Yourself (2011)

 Imgur

14 Taylor Pischke

• Sport: Volleyball – Double
• Start of career: 2012
• Greatest achievement:
  • Won 2 bronze medals at the under 23 World Championship (in 2013 and 2014)
  • Won 7 medals (3 gold, 3 silver, 1 bronze) at the NORCECA Beach Volleyball Circuit between 2013 and 2015

 Suara

• Family: She is the daughter of two-time Olympic champion Garth Pischke, who played with the Canada’s men’s national volleyball team, and of Canadian Junior National team athlete and three-time CIS National Champion Cindy Shepherd.
• Other occupations: 
  • Was the advocate of the Dove campaign “My Beauty My Say” in 2016
  • She is a student in the Faculty of Science at the University of Manitoba

 USOpen

13 Caroline Wozniacki

• Sport: Tennis
• Start of career: 2005-2020
• Greatest achievement:
  • Won 30 WTA singles titles and 2 WTA doubles titles
  • Won the 2006 Wimbledon girls’ singles title
  • Won the singles title at the 2018 Australian Open

 zen.yandex.ru

• Relationship: Married to former NBA basketball player David Lee
• Did you know:
  • In 2018, she was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis
  • On February 10, 2021, she announced that she was expecting her first child

 SB Nation

12 Cheyenne Woods

• Sport: Golf
• Start of career: 2012
• Greatest achievement:
  • Won the 2012 SunCoast Ladies Series LPGA International
  • Won the 2014 Volvik RACV Ladies Masters

 Body Measurement Info

• Family: She is the half-niece of professional golfer Tiger Woods
• Did you know: In the history of the LPGA, there have only been six black female professional golfers, including Woods.

 TIME for Kids

11 Simone Biles

• Sport: Gymnastics – Women’s artistic gymnastics
• Start of career: 2011
• Greatest achievement:
  • Participated in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where she won 5 medals (4 gold and one bronze)
  • Won 25 medals in World Championships (19 gold, 3 silver, and 3 bronze)
  • Won 2 gold medals at the 2016 Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships
  • Won 3 medals in FIG World Cups (2 gold, one silver)

 Insider

• Relationship: Dating professional American football player Jonathan Owens
• Other occupations:
  • Co-author of the autobiography Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, A Life in Balance
  • Competed on season 24 of Dancing with the Stars

 Sportscasting

10 Hope Solo

• Sport: Soccer – Goalkeeper
• Career: 1996-2016
• Greatest achievement:
  • Participated in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, where she won one gold medal
  • Participated in the 2012 Olympics in London, where she won one gold medal
  • FIFA Women’s World Cup Champion in 2015

 Modernitta

• Relationship: Married to former American football player Jerramy Stevens
• Other occupations: 
  • Representative of the Women’s Sports Foundation
  • Author of her autobiography Solo: A Memoir of Hope (2012)

 Reddit

9 Danica Patrick

• Sport: Racing – NASCAR, IndyCar
• Career: 2005-2018
• Greatest achievement: 
  • Most successfull woman in the history of American open-wheel racing
  • Won the 2008 Indy Japan 300
  • 2005 Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year
  • 2005 IndyCar Series season Rookie of the Year
  • Finish in pole position 1 time in the NASCAR Cup Series, 1 time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, and 3 times in the IndyCar Series

 People

• Relationship: 
  • Married to physical therapist Paul Edward Hospenthal (2005-2013)
  • Dated NASCAR driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (2012-2017)
  • Dated NFL quarterback for the Green Bay Packers Aaron Rodgers (2018-2020)
• Other occupations:
  • Host of several TV Shows on Spike
  • Appeared in various TV shows and music videos
  • Driving instructor on set of the movie Charlie’s Angels (2019)
  • Owns her own wine brand, Somnium

 Wrestling World

8 Ronda Rousey

• Sport: Wrestling, MMA – Judo
• Career: 2010-2018
• Greatest achievement:
  • Won 4 medals in Pan American Championships (2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
  • Won a gold medal at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro
  • Participated in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, where she won one bronze medal

 Eskipaper.com

• Relationship: Married to UFC fighter Travis Browne
• Other occupations:
  • Author of autobiography My Fight / Your Fight (2015)
  • She has landed roles in various films and TV series such as The Expendables 3 (2014), Furious 7 (2015) and Mile 22 (2018)

 RMC Sport

7 Venus Williams

• Sport: Tennis
• Start of career: 1994
• Greatest achievement:
  • Won a gold medal in Singles and a gold medal in Doubles at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney
  • Won a gold medal in Doubles at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing
  • Won a gold medal in Doubles at the 2012 Olympics in London
  • Won a silver medal in Mixed doubles at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro
  • Won 49 WTA singles titles, 22 WTA doubles titles and 2 WTA mixed double titles

 Interior Design Magazine

• Relationship: 
  • Dated golfer Hank Kuehne (2007-2010)
  • Dated Cuban model Elio Pis (2012-2015)
  • Dated publishing heir Nicholas Hammond (2017-2019)
• Other occupations: 
  • CEO of her interior design firm V Starr Interiors
  • Created her own fashion line, EleVen, with retailer Steve & Barry’s in 2007
  • Part-Owner of the professional American football team Miami Dolphins since 2009
  • Co-author of Come to Win; on How Sports Can Help You Top Your Profession (2010)

 The Independant

6 Allyson Felix

• Sport: Track and Field – Sprint
• Start of career: 2001
• Greatest achievement:
  • For the 200 meters:
    • 2012 Olympic champion
    • Been the World Champion 3 times
    • Won 2 silver medals during Olympic Games (2004, 2018)
  • For the 400 meters:
    • 2011 World silver medalist
    • 2015 World Champion
    • Won the silver medal at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro
    • 2017 Wirld bronze medalist
  • Won a total of 9 Olympic medals (6 gold, 3 silver)

 SELF Magazine

• Relationship: Married to American sprinter and hurdler Kenneth Ferguson
• Other occupations: She’s become an advocate for “the inequalities facing Black pregnant women and the Black maternal mortality rate”.

 Armpower.NET

5 Sarah Bäckman

• Sport: Arm wrestling, Wrestling
• Career: 2005-2014
• Greatest achievement:
  • Named World Arm Wrestling Champion 8 times
  • Named European Arm Wrestling Champion 8 times
  • Named Swedish Arm Wrestling Champion 11 times
  • She’s one of the most decorated women’s arm wrestlers in the world

 Malin Sydne

• Relationship:
  • Now single
  • Was married to American professional wrestler Bo Dallas until 2019
• Other occupations: She now works as a real estate broker

 MMA Fighting

4 Michelle Waterson

• Sport: MMA – Karate, Muay Thai, BJJ
• Start of career: 2007
• Greatest achievement: 
  • 2013 Atomweight of the Year
  • 2014 Atomweight of the Year
  • As of 2021, she’s ranked #8 in the UFC women’s strawweight rankings

 digisport.ro

• Relationship: Married to former U.S. Armed Forces amateur boxing champion Joshua Gomez
• Other occupations: Model and UFC competitor

 YouTube

3 Skylar Diggins-Smith

• Sport: Basketball – Point guard
• Start of career: 2013
• Greatest achievement:
  • Won a gold medal at the 2012 Athens World Championship
  • Named WNBA All-Star 4 times (2014, 2015, 2017, 2018)

 MTO News

• Relationship: Married to her long-time boyfriend Daniel Smith
• Other occupations: She has a degree from Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business

 Toronto Star

2 Eugénie Bouchard

• Sport: Tennis
• Start of career: 2011
• Greatest achievement:
  • Won the 2012 Wimbledon girls’ title
  • First Canadian-born player representing Canada to reach the final of a Grand Slam tournament in Singles at the 2014 Wimbledon Championships
  • First Canadian player to be ranked in the top 5 in Singles during the 2014 season

 En Vedette

• Relationship: Dating Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph
• Did you know: In 2015, she was named #1 on SportsPro’s list of World’s 50 Most Marketable Athletes

 NPR

1 Abby Wambach

• Sport: Soccer – Forward
• Career: 2002-2015
• Greatest achievement:
  • Won the U.S. Soccer Federation’s U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year award 6 times (2003, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2013)
  • Won the WUSA’s Rookie of the Year award in 2002
  • Named WPS Player of the Week 7 times while playing for the Washington Freedom and magicJack
  • Awarded the Bronze Boot and Silver Ball at the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup
  • Named the FIFA World Player of the Year in 2012
  • Won the FIFA Women’s World Cup in 2015
  • Named to the Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world in 2015
  • Received the ESPY Icon Award in 2016

 Human Resource Executive

• Relationship: Married to author Glennon Doyle
• Other occupations:
  • Did philanthropic work for the Epilepsy Foundation and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
  • Author of autobiography Forward (2016), and of the book Wolfpack: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power and Change the Game (2019)