Game Changers: Unstoppable Women

By Nick Esposito

Game Changers: Unstoppable Women

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The women who broke barriers and changed the game forever.

Lightning speed! A fearless flip? The courage to show up when people say you don’t belong!

In Game Changers: Women Heroes, you’ll experience some of the most inspiring stories in sports history. From Olympic gold and world records to history-making firsts, these true stories bring the greatest moments in sports to life.

Meet heroes like Babe Didrikson, Wilma Rudolph, Kathrine Switzer, Nadia Comăneci, Venus Williams, Simone Biles, and many more. Relive the 1999 World Cup final in front of more than 90,000 fans, UConn’s record-breaking 90-game win streak, and the night the Olympic scoreboard couldn’t show a perfect 10. Along the way, you’ll discover how courage, perseverance, confidence, and the strength to stand up for what’s right helped these athletes break barriers and change the game for everyone who came after them.

Packed with action, drama, and unforgettable firsts, this is sports history at its most powerful. Lace up your sneakers and take your mark. It’s game time!


Chapters Include:

1. Outnumbered - The story of Babe Didrikson winning the 1932 national track team title as a one-woman team

2. Anchor - The story of Wilma Rudolph winning her third gold medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics

3. Number 261 - The story of Kathrine Switzer defying a race official to finish the 1967 Boston Marathon

4. Perfect 1.0 - The story of Nadia Comăneci earning the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics

5. The 99ers - The story of the U.S. women’s soccer team winning the 1999 World Cup

6. Slam Dunk - The story of Lisa Leslie making the first dunk in a WNBA game

7. Making Waves - The story of Jessica Long winning three gold medals at the 2004 Athens Paralympics

8. Grand Slam - The story of Venus Williams fighting for equal prize money and winning Wimbledon in 2007

9. The Streak - The story of UConn’s women’s basketball team winning a record-breaking 90 consecutive games

10. Ace - The story of Mo’ne Davis pitching a shutout at the 2014 Little League World Series

11. The Twisties - The story of Simone Biles putting her safety first and winning Olympic bronze on the balance beam in 2021

Nick Esposito

Nick Esposito is an award-winning teacher and education consultant with a passion for bringing best practices of service learning into the classroom. Nick has travelled around the world, serving with different organizations for different cultures and peoples. Through these experiences he has developed the belief that educational experiences must sharpen the mind and embrace the heart. Nick has degrees from Villanova University (journalism, sociology, peace & justice), Johns Hopkins (masters in urban education) and the University of Pennsylvania (masters in education entrepreneurship). Nick is the ecstatic husband of the love of his life and "Habitat Crush," Cynthia. He is also a long-time hockey player and Philadelphia sports fan. He is the proud teacher of hundreds of students, all of whom are impacting the world in their own exciting, unique, yet quirky ways.Ricardo Tokumoto was born in Limeira, Brazil. He later moved to Belo Horizonte, where he attended the Faculty of Fine Arts at UFMG and graduated with a BA in animation cinema. Today, he works on webcomics, creates comics for authors and publishers, and also works as an illustrator and animator.