Billie Jean King Research Paper

Gabby (late nicknamed Flying Squirrel) was born in Virginia Beach, Virginia, sharing a house with 3 siblings and mom and dad, Timothy Douglas and Natalie Hawkins. Her older sister Arielle started of her career at age six when convincing their mom Natalie to enroll Gabby in gymnastics. By eight years old gabby had won the level four all-around gymnastics title while competing in the 2004 Virginia State Championships. Tragically in 2009 Douglas suffered a fracture to her wrist. Due to her injury she was unable to compete in several events.

I coached the sport for like eighteen years straight until Mr. Daly, our recently retired athletic director, talked me into taking over the girls’ basketball program. For Pete’s sake, I still PLAY the game. The Rebels, my team in the Pioneer Valley Over-Thirty Baseball League, won its second championship in four years a couple weeks ago, and I played shortstop and third base, pitched a little and batted cleanup most games. That might sound pathetic coming from a 43 year-old who’s supposed to be sort of professional and mature and what not, but there it is. That’s who I am, and pretty much who I have been since my dad stuck a glove on my hand and played catch with me for the first time back in

The short story “Rules of the Game” by Amy Tan is a narrative told from the perspective of a young girl named Waverly. When she was younger, one of her brothers received a used chess set. Waverly became dedicated to the game and taught herself how to play chess. By age nine, she was a national chess champion. She spent many hours a day practicing for her local tournaments and was excused from many of her domestic responsibilities to ensure she wins at her chess matches.

Curry was born in the same hospital as a former basketball star, Lebron James. Curry is the oldest of his brother Seth Curry, and sister Sydel Curry. Athletics runs in the Curry family. Dell Curry played professional basketball too from 1987 to 2002. Sonya Curry played volleyball at Virginia Tech along with Sydel years later who plays at Elon University.

early life ALI was bord in cassius clay in Louisville Kentucky, in 1942. his father was a sign painter who also loved to act , sing and dance; his mother worked as a cleaning lady when money was tight. Ali has one older brother, Rahman Rudy Ali Ali is two years older than his famous sibling and was also a professional boxer. CHILD HOOD

Also in Bonnie’s school days she had wrote poetry. As Bonnie had gotten older she had fallen in love with a boy named Roy thornton, and on

A great example is Juan & Evita Peron. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Juan Perón was an Argentine lieutenant general and politician. After serving in several government positions, including Minister of Labour and Vice President, he was elected President of Argentina, serving from June 1946 to September 1955, when he was overthrown in a coup d 'état, and then from October 1973 until his death in July 1974.

When I was seven years old I had decided to play to play softball. It seemed like a fun sport to play. My Uncle is the coach for the Lookouts baseball team , and he decided to help me learn how to play. He answers any questions that I have. One day, I was playing outside with my friends at school, and we were talking about sports.

She had a couple broadcasting jobs before being the talk show host for a show called People Are Talking. " Then she got a job as the host of A.M. Chicago, which became the highest-rated talk show in Chicago and was renamed The Oprah Winfrey Show"

My mom loved softball,she had to switch schools because her school didn 't have softball,she went to parkway and switched to vantage. When my mom was high school ball she was always the pitcher and a girl went to slide into home plate my mom had the ball in her glove and the girl slide right into her hand,and my moms had swelled up but my mom still pitched. Let 's say by the end of the night her hand was the size of the softball. A few years later about her Junior year my mom met my dad Terry Leugers.

However there is no information about her mother, except for a death date and location; Jane Beers died in Santa Barbara, CA in 1958. Martha had three siblings, Mary, Georgia and a younger brother who died of scarlet fever before his second birthday. Martha was the oldest of all the kids, definitely pressuring her to be the good influence. Growing up Martha was surrounded by the arts. Her father frequently played the piano and her nurse ,Elizabeth Pendergrass, would set up plays for the children to act out while she was watching them.

Virne Mitchell will always be remembered as “The girl who stuck out Babe Ruth.” For my license plate about the famous woman, I decided to include the letters CL to represent the Major League Baseball team she played for. In addition, I included the year 1931 because

Journalist, producer and author, Barbara Jill Walters, came into the world on September 25, 1929. Her father, Louis Walters, worked as the owner of the Latin Quarter nightclubs and as a booking agent, which allowed Barbara to associate with celebrities from a young age. She later claimed that this was how she became comfortable talking with famous individuals as a journalist. Her mother, Dena Walters, was a homemaker who raised Barbara along with her two siblings: Jacqueline and Burton. Jacqueline was born mentally disabled and died in 1985 from ovarian cancer.

Robin Roberts was born on November 23, 1960 in Tuskegee, Alabama. The youngest of four children, Robin remained physically active by engaging in many sports while growing up. She went on to play for her girls’ basketball team in college and earned her BA in Communication at Southeastern Louisiana University. Following advice from her sister Shelly-Ann, she combined her passion for basketball and journalism and started working as a sports reporter at various TV stations. In 1990 she became an anchor for ESPN’s Sportscenter where she contributed to some of the biggest headlines in sports during that time.

Mary Parenti is 12 years old, who scored 87 in the IQ. The year she was born, her family emigrated to New York. Her family owns a restaurant and where her both parents work. This little girl should have a kidney transplant because she is a genius and she might innovate something. Thus, the community should invest in her.