Sentences with phrase «first champion of the women»

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The last of the year's four tennis Grand Slam tournaments crowns its champions this weekend and women's favorite Serena Williams is looking to make history by becoming the first woman to win all four Grand Slam events in the same calendar year since Steffi Graf in 1988.

Juve clearly took heed of the promise made by the two women and it is possible they took extra encouragement from their words, going on to beat Monaco 1 - 0 at Juventus Stadium in their Champions League quarter final first leg.

Why you should care: Naomi was the only face champion in WWE for months and months, and has managed to hold on to her title despite the entire division gunning for her and the existence of the first - ever women's Money in the Bank briefcase holder, Carmella.

# 42 Leah Marie Rawls Atkins BIRMINGHAM Three - time U.S. waterskiing champion, and world champion in 1953; first woman inducted into Alabama Sports Hall of Fame.

Their Sylvia Pankhursts were their great golfers who could not fail to be imitated by other women and to be admired by the men: Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd, a Scots girl, who (circa 1910) won the Scottish, British, Canadian and American championships; Cecil Leitch, the first woman who decided that there was no reason a woman shouldn't attack the ball forcefully like the best men players, and who did so with such a natural dash; the incomparable Joyce Wethered, who succeeded Miss Leitch after World War I as the queen of the British links and is remembered as the most consummate of women stylists; Glenna Collett, the pertinacious girl from Providence, the first great American champion, who won our national title six times between 1922 and 1935, and in more recent years such superb players as Patty Berg and the majestic Babe Didrikson Zaharias who «made» women's professional golf after she had become in 1947 the first American to win the British Ladies Championship.

Most of them will be competing, including the defending champion Anne Quast (see cover) who could be the ninth woman in the 65 - year history of the event to win the title twice or more in a row; and Judy Frank Jablow (page 36) who, having at first announced that marriage and career would prevent her from participating this year, proved that women are still women, even if they are golfers, by changing her mind.

ESPN USA will cover all the games in the 2018 ICC tournament including the very first edition of the Women's International Champions Cup.

In 2015, Chelsea Ladies won a famous double, becoming champions of the FA Women's Super League for the first time and winning the FA Women's Cup at Wembley Stadium.

Fifteen - year - old Abigail Stones» narrow semi-final defeat in the women's -44 kg category confirmed the junior world champion's bronze medal and Team GB's first medal of the Games on the opening day of competition.

• A French women's record crowd of 22,050 watched Lyon beat Paris 7 - 0 in a UEFA Women's Champions League semi-final first leg in April 2016, and the venue will hold the first and last matches of the 2019 Women's Worldwomen's record crowd of 22,050 watched Lyon beat Paris 7 - 0 in a UEFA Women's Champions League semi-final first leg in April 2016, and the venue will hold the first and last matches of the 2019 Women's WorldWomen's Champions League semi-final first leg in April 2016, and the venue will hold the first and last matches of the 2019 Women's WorldWomen's World Cup.

Team Betch NL Superior - Brentjens rider Alice Barnes took a superb second in her first elite road championships to win the under - 23 women's champion title with defending champion Laura Trott, of Matrix Fitness, third.

In just their second year in the top flight of women's football, the Blues secured a top - two finish and Champions League football for the first time, winning all bar one of their nine league games in the second half of the campaign and delighting record crowds with some beautiful football.

Their 15 - 12 win over the University of Gloucestershire, the 2015 BUCS champions, was the perfect start to a season that sees them determined to make up for last year's 52 - 0 hammering by the Light Blues in the first Women's Varsity Match played at Twickenham Stadium.

Blues boss Emma Hayes paid tribute to the shot - stopper, who has kept clean sheets in three of our four Women's Champions League wins this term and has been first choice between the sticks throughout her stay at the club, which is approaching three years.

The pair were some of the first women to become Breeze Champions in Wales, and have embraced the role inspiring more women to ride bikes in Newport.

Another speaker at the press conference was Ashleigh Clare - Kearney, a two - time national champion in gymnastics and the first Louisiana State University student athlete to earn the distinction as an NCAA Woman of the Year finalist in 2009.

Mr Issa also said Mr Akufo - Addo's policy to build a factory in each of the 216 districts, should he win the presidency, was impossible, unless he was talking about cottage industries as championed across the country by the 31st December Women's Movement of former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman - Rawlings.

Adriano Espaillat officially had his ticket punched to Washington, becoming the first Dominican to serve in the U.S. Congress, while the two women of Dominican heritage he had championed also earned seats in the State Legislature.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino has announced that the Hon. Lois Taplin Bronz, the first woman and first African - American to chair Westchester County's Board of Legislators and a life - long champion for early childhood education, will be the top honoree at the 31st annual Westchester Senior Citizens Hall of Fame on Dec. 6.

While fans of other pioneers of the era may put forth their own champions, Erika Hinchey was one of the first women of influence at a time when women were beginning to become a factor in local politics.

The First African - American Woman to Receive a Doctorate from M.I.T. Champions the Dividends of Education

Prehistoric women that lived in Central Europe during the first 5,500 years of farming had stronger upper arms than living female rowing champions, according...

My last protégé Helen Maroulis became the first American female to win Olympic gold in Rio in the 53 kg in Women's Wrestling, easily defeating the indisputed champion of the last 3 Olympics Saori Yoshida because of your new - found strength.

After four years of providing more than 36 fellows with deep support, we are delighted to announce the addition of a new granting fund, graciously sponsored by LUNA ®, the first nutrition bar for women and creators of the LUNAFEST ®, an annual film festival and fundraiser that has been championing female filmmakers for more than 15 years.

Thanks to Entertainment Weekly, we've got our first look at Emma Stone and Steve Carell as Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs in Battle of the Sexes, the upcoming tennis biopic detailing the highly - publicised 1973 inter-gender match between then women's number one King and former champion Riggs.

All of us here in Paris: Goodwill Ambassadors, Artists for Peace and Champions for Sports in this historic gathering are committed to help carry out the vision of a» new humanism» articulated by the first woman Director - General of UNESCO, Dr. Irina Bokova.

Bernd Rosemeyer was Hitler's Aryan poster child — a blonde - haired, blue - eyed champion and the husband of another German celebrity, Elly Beinhorn, the first woman to circumnavigate the earth in an aircraft.

Not only did we see women fighting in The Octagon for the first time, we saw two of the sport's most iconic champions - Anderson Silva and Georges St - Pierre - lose their respective titles.

I once asked Park how she felt about the feminist movement in art and some of the prominent women near her generation who had first championed it, like Mimi Shapiro, whom she knew quite well.

As first lady of the United States and a U.S. senator from New York, she traveled to more than 80 countries as a champion of human rights, democracy, and opportunities for women and girls.