Celebrating our female athletes

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Last year was a banner year for UA Athletics — especially because of our world-class female athletes! In celebration of our first national championships in softball and women’s golf, as well as back-to-back national titles for gymnastics, we take a glimpse into the past to see some of UA’s women athletes in action…

women's synchronized swimming
Synchronized Swimming, c. 1950

women's tennis
Tennis, 1963

women's volleyball
Volleyball, 1970s

women's golf
Golf, 1970s

women's basketball
Basketball, 1975

women's diving
Diving, c. 1980

These photographs and more can be found in the UA Photo Collection and in the UA Encyclopedia.

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I'm Kate Matheny, the Digitization Outreach Coordinator at UA Libraries Digital Services. I work on meeting the needs of the patron community and publicizing our digital collections, in addition to creating digitized content for Acumen.
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