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Black Women Athletes that have made US history in the past 10 years

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The became the first women on the cover of the bestselling basketball video game NBA 2K
Track and Field star who is currently the only woman to have six gold medals and the all-time most decorated woman in track.
She was training to qualify for Team USA Volleyball for the Olympics while she was 32 weeks pregnant and made the roster. She became ranked #1 world as a middle blocker.
She broke the world record in the women's 400m hurdles in the track and field Olympic Trials, she is the first woman to run the event in less than 52 seconds. In 2016, at age 16, she was the youngest athlete on the U.S track and field team.
Went pro for tennis at age 15 and dominated the court. She has won 23 double titles and 73 single tires, including her open-era 23rd record title she won while pregnant. She has won more than $94.5 million earned in prize money which is twice as much as other female athletes.
The first Asian Tennis play to earn the title of number 1 in the world and the first Japanese player (male or female) to win a Grand Slam title. She is only the 3rd person in history to win all four of her first Grand Slam finals.
Flaming orange hair and took first place in the 100m Olympic trials for track and field but soon after her victory, a drug test found marijuana in her system disqualifying her from Tokyo
She became the first Black American woman to become the American Ballet Theater principal dancer after 75 years. She has used her status to advocate for increased diversity and representation in classical ballet.
At age 15 she became the youngest tennis player to compete at the tournament in 28 years and became the youngest athlete to reach the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam tournament. She qualified for the Tokyo games but was forced to withdraw after testing positive for Covid
The first woman of color and the first Black gymnast in Olympic history to be the Individual All-Around Champion.
In 2014 at age 13, she became the first African American girl to ever play in the Little League World Series and the first female to pitch a complete game shutout which ended up marking the first win for a female pitcher.
She has won 7 all-around gymnastics national titles in a row with 5 olympic medals and became the most decorated American gymnast (male or female) of all time. She was named Most Dominant Athlete of 2018. Has a total of 30 Olympic and World Championship medals.
First Black American woman swimmer to win an individual gold medal in the Olympics and ended up taking home 4 medals in total (2 gold and 2 silver). She has suffered from overtraining syndrome throughout 2020 and still qualified for Tokyo Olympics.
At 18 years old she became the first Black woman ever on Team USA to compete in the Olympic short track speed skating competition. As she is a Ghana native, she's also the second African born athlete to represent US in the Winter Olympics
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Went pro for tennis at age 14 and has a total of 5 olympic medals with 4 of them being gold, 7 Grand Slam singles titles and 16 Grand slam double titles. She had earned more than $42.2 million in prize money since the beginning of her career. During her career she advocated for equal pay for women tennis players.
She was the first American woman bobsled driver to earn a World title and the first woman to compete alongside the men on the US national team as a four-man bobsled pilot.
In 2016, at the Rio Olympics, she became the first American to compete while wearing a hijab and was the first Muslim American to win bronze.
She broke the fastest youth record in 2015 when she ran the 100m sprint in 10.98 seconds.
She holds her University's school record for most points scored in women's basketball and led them to a national championship in which they installed a statue of her. She was the number one WNBA draft pick and later named Rookie of the year.
Was named the country's best collegiate soccer star after winning the national championship in 2012. She was the first overall pick in the 2014 NWSL draaft and became the youngest player to be named league MVP and was part of the FIFA World cup winning team.