The Players Tribune

Women in Sports

Over the last century, female athletes have emerged as powerful voices for equality. Read their firsthand accounts of how they overcame the challenges they faced.

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I hope, when you open this letter 50 years from now, there are skate videos and animations and drawings and books with your name on them.

Alexis Sablone

I’ll allow you one — one! — Ferrari. The red one, the one you’re dreaming about when you go to sleep tonight after winning that under-12s title.

Caroline Wozniacki

Pro surfer Carissa Moore reflects on the "Perfect Day" when she won the World Surf League Title.

Carissa Moore

People spend their lives running from places like mine. Thing is, you can’t run from the place that made you because it is you.

Tanisha Wright

We’ve come a long way to now have two women coaching full-time in the NBA. But for me growing up, I always played with the boys. At least, when they’d let me.

Nancy Lieberman

Before I was president of the USTA, I was a player. And as much as I was a player, I was a fan.

Katrina Adams

I grew up in chaos. There’s no other word for it.

Sugar Rodgers

You don’t reach the top of your sport without standing on the shoulders of those who came before you.

Billie Jean King

Even when a dream comes true, it doesn’t play out the way you imagined.

Candice Wiggins

Brandi Chastain pens a letter to her younger self: “People will remind you to never look back — always look forward, in positivity and hopefulness.”

Brandi Chastain

WNBA star Maya Moore on how we can increase visibility for women's basketball across the board.

Maya Moore