Duke University in college, in 1963 he was USBWA Player of the Year, AP Player of the Year, UPI Player of the Year, Sporting News Player of the Year, Helms Foundation College Player of the Year, a consensus first-team All-American, ACC Player of the Year, and ACC Athlete of the ...
and won the sprint event at the 1899 world track championships to become the first African American to achieve the level of world champion and the second black athlete to win a world championship in any sport. Taylor also set numerous world records in the sprint discipline in race distances ra...
with asthma, Meyer broke 15 world records in swimming during her career.Meyer broke 24 American records and won 19 Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) national championships. In 1968, she won the James E. Sullivan Award. In 1969, she was named Associated Press Athlete of the Year. She was named...
Earl William Eby was an American athlete who competed mainly in the 800 metres. He competed for the United States in the 1920 Summer Olympics held in Antwerp, Belgium in the 800 metres where he won the silver medal. He was born in Aurora, Illinois, but attended high school in Chicago, ...
Joyner-Kersee, an American track and field gold, silver and bronze Olympic medal-winner, trained and met her goals despite being asthmatic. Tenacious from a young age, she’s a hard-working ISTJ who now advocates for young athletes. She says, “The one thing every athlete wants and needs...
Joyner-Kersee, an American track and field gold, silver and bronze Olympic medal-winner, trained and met her goals despite being asthmatic. Tenacious from a young age, she’s a hard-working ISTJ who now advocates for young athletes. She says, “The one thing every athlete wants and needs...
Kimberly Lyn "Kim" Lyons (born May 5, 1973) is an American athlete, personal trainer, nutritionist, and fitness model who has appeared several times on the covers of many health and fitness magazines and has also starred on the United States version of the competitive reality television show...