Missy Franklin: The Swimming Sensation At just six months old Franklin’s mother D.A. enrolled the two of them into and “mommy and me” swim class. While babies cried and wailed around them, Franklin grinned under the water (Miller 15-16). She was always meant to be a swimmer from the very beginning, and she put great deal of hard work and dedication into making it a lifestyle for herself. Her hard work and dedication made her an excellent swimmer, athlete and an all around good person. By looking at Missy Franklin’s background, accomplishments, and society’s views of her, others can understand why Missy lives as a strong and positive force in the sports world to this day.
Others can look further into Franklin’s background by examining her childhood. Melissa Jeanette Franklin was born on May 10, 1995 in Pasadena, California. Her parents are Dick and D.A. Franklin, and they brought Missy to Centennial, Colorado, where she grew up. She started swim lessons when she was just two years old, and snorkeled in Maui with her family at the age of three (Hendrickson). Franklin tried many sports throughout her childhood including: basketball, soccer, volleyball, ice skating,
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One amazing and inspirational thing she has done would be that she gave up all the endorsements to go to college at Berkeley in California. She wanted to get ”a taste of a college career”, and she turned down thousands of dollars. She decided she would go to college for two years and then turn professional (Hendrickson). Another achievement other than swimming was her education. She had a 4.0 GPA up until senior year, and has always been focused on learning (Hendrickson). Franklin said, “ These are the sacrifices you have to make to be the best in your sport. I would do everything the same if I had to do it again” (Miler 31). She also impacted other people around
Imagine swimming in the big Olympic pools. All you can hear is the muffled noises of ecstatic fans cheering. All you can feel is the water urging you to keep swimming. Then you reach your hand out and feel the wall. You emerge out of the crystal blue pool water and have won! Michael Phelps and Dara Torres are two extraordinary swimmers who live their lives in the Olympic pools. Both Torres Is Tops and Michael’s Magic deal with the challenges and successes of Dara and Michael’s Olympic careers, but they do so in different ways. Let’s start our swim through the lives of these two Olympic champions.
Jessie Redmond Fauset was born on April 27, 1882 in a small city of Philadelphia. Fauset was born into a poor family that valued her education very much. For high school she had attended High School for GIrls where she was a sole African American of the class. Even though she had wanted to go to Bryn Mawr for college she was given money to attend Cornell University. Fauset had graduated 1905. race had kept her from being a teacher so she taught in Berlin. Maryland, and Washington. Faucets occupations were a writer, poet, editor, and teacher.
Melissa Peirce has been living in Nashville for 20 years as a professional songwriter. Within the past several years, her songs have been recorded by Reba McEntire, LeAnn Rimes, Carrie Underwood, Faith Hill, Keith Urban, Dierks Bentley, Hunter Hayes, David Nail, Tyler Farr, Eli Young Band, Joss Stone, Randy Montana, John Paul White (The Civil Wars), Kenny Chesney, and many more. Her latest songs on the Country Top Ten chart are David Nail’s “Red Light,” Tyler Farr’s “Guy Walks Into a Bar,” Reba’s “I’m Gonna Take That Mountain,” and Eli Young Band’s “Say Goodnight,” all earning multiple awards. Melissa has also written two international hits: Doc Walker's "I Am Ready" went top 10 in Canada in 2005, and Bella's "Tumbling Down" went top 10 in Australia in 2004.
The Bethany Hamilton story is about a girl that was attacked by a 14ft tiger shark and lost her left arm and was still able to surf. This all happened to her 13 years ago while surfing with her best friend. Bethany grew up in north shore Kauai and placed 2nd in NSSA national championship. She is 26 years old is well known for her surfing and her movie the Soul Surfer. She said that it is still hard for her adapt to the way people treat her. “In Bethany Hamilton’s mind, winning the ESPY award for best female athlete with a disability would have been like “rewinding back to square one”. “It’s funny,” she chuckled, “when I first heard I was going to be nominated for an ESPY the first thing I thought was: ‘Whoa, I’m going to be up for best female action sports athlete!’ It didn’t even occur to me that I was going to be placed in the disabled division … I don’t surf disabled or compete in a disabled category.” She is now doing a documentary called “Surfer like a girl.”
Bethany Hamilton is a very inspirational woman, who became a pro surfer with only one arm. On the morning of October 31, 2003 Bethany went surfing with her best friends family and a fourteen-foot tiger shark at a beach in Ha’ena attacked her. Surprisingly she started surfing just one month after the accident. She has books and movies, such as the popular 2011 film Soul Surfer based on her journey. Even though Bethany lost her left arm in a shark attack, she was able to overcome it, and become a pro surfer while inspiring everyone around her. (Tim Ott, Biography)
People have called me lots of things, criminal, thief, outlaw, murderer... their all true. My name is Bonnie Parker and I was the greatest female criminal in the 1930s. You probably know me because of my associate Clyde, they usually put our names together. I was born on October 1st, 1910 in Rowena, Texas. My parents were Emma and Charles Parker. I had an older brother named Hubert and a little sister named Billy Jean. I was the perfect daughter, blond hair, blue eyes, and very smart. I was adorable. My mother treated our family like we were better than everyone else because my daddy was the only man in the community that wasn't a farmer, until my daddy died when I was four. My mom moved us to Dallas and never looked back. I was a good, church
I, Cecilia Evans Beekman was born in Montclair, New Jersey in 1958. My mother and father were both born in Philadelphia, West Philadelphia within blocks of one another. My mother's parents were from Ireland, both born in Ireland and came into the port of Philadelphia when they were both around 16, so my mother's parents were Irish and she was a first generation American. For my father's mother, she was Irish but really didn't
”Between 1986 and 1995, Janet Evans won 25 out of 27 major international races at 400m and 22 out of 23 at 800m. Her world record for the 800m freestyle lasted through four Olympic Games until it was finally broken at the 2008 Beijing Games.” (Janet Evans). In high school, Janet Evans was so good at swimming and won so many titles when she was in high school she went into the hall of fame that that is really
Katherine Johnson was born to Joshua and Joylette Coleman on August 26,1918 in White Sulphur Spring in West Virginia. Even at a young age Katherine loved math she was always known as the “Girl that Loves to Count”. “I counted everything. I counted the steps to the road, the steps up to the church, the number of dishes and silverware I washed … anything that could be counted, I did.” (Katherine Johnson: A Lifetime of STEM) Unlike most of the children in her day she was 10 when she was in high school. Katherine favorite teacher in high school was Miss Turner she taught Katherine geometry.Katherine stated that she was a great encourager in her life.
Noelle was born on April 19, 2000, to Robbie Josoff and Melissa Josoff in Omaha, Nebraska. She attended Yutan Elementary School and graduated for Yutan High School in 2018. She attended the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, where she received a degree in elementary education and an endorsement in coaching. On May 20, 2024,
For a long time, women’s potential in Science was little to none. However, over the years, it has now changed because of the outstanding breakthroughs and encouraging accomplishments women have done through the years. It is because of them, women’s potential in Science and other realms of studies has now evolved with more understandings and discoveries. It is for the reason of Maria Mitchell, one of the first female astronomers to be recognized in Science, that women’s potential were essentially respected. Her discoveries during her time as a student, a teacher, and an astronomer paved the way for many others, not just in Science, but also for woman’s rights and potential to be seen.
It has just occurred to me - Stella Young isn't comfortable with people being inspired by her for being able to do normal, everyday things in life in spite of her physical disability and I, and many others like me with mental health issues, struggle to make people understand that it's these normal, everyday things in life that we find so difficult to deal with.
The first film we watched was a documentary entitled, Dare to Compete; it provided a brief history of women in film, focusing primarily on American women in sport from the late 19th century to the present. From this film we gained a notion of where women have been and how far we've come in the sports world. In fact, the growing equality, autonomy and independence of women throughout the 20th century from the suffragette movement to the adoption of Title IX and the Equal Rights Amendment is linked directly with the growing prominence and acceptance of women in sports. The main themes of the film, along with the examination of women in sport, were the celebration of the female athlete and how far women have come in the sports world as well as a reminder that female athletes have not yet attained the same status as male athletes.
The start of the 2002 track season found me concerned with how I would perform. After a disastrous bout with mononucleosis ended my freshmen track season, the fear of failure weighed heavily on my mind. I set a goal for myself in order to maintain focus and to push myself like nothing else would. My goal for my sophomore track season was to become a state champion in the 100 meter hurdles. I worked hard everyday at practice and went the extra mile, like running every Sunday, to be just that much closer to reaching my goal. The thought of standing highest on the podium in the center of the field, surrounded by hundreds of spectators, overcame my thoughts of complaining every time we had a hard workout. When I closed my eyes, I pictured myself waiting in anticipation as other competitors names were called out, one by one, until finally, the booming voice announced over the loudspeaker, "...and in first place, your 2002 100 meter hurdle champion, from Hotchkiss, Connie Dawson." It was visions like these that drove me to work harder everyday.