The Assist Archive

Name that Woman Trailblazer: American soccer player who became the first international star of the women’s game. Playing forward, she starred on the U.S. national team that won World Cup championships...

Name that Woman Trailblazer: She is first woman to swim from mainland Rhode Island to Block Island (10.4 miles in five hours and 19 minutes). The 29-year-old, three-time Olympian, said...

Name that Woman Trailblazer: She was a professor emeritus in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and an internationally recognized scientist whose groundbreaking cancer research...

Name that Woman Trailblazer: She finished high school at the age of 14 and double majored in Math & French at West Virginia State University. She was hired by the...