GOAT: Women in Sports
Set of 7 titles
What does it mean to be the "greatest of all time," or the GOAT? For Serena Williams, it means winning her first major at 17 years old--and staying on top ever since. For Diana Taurasi, it means multiple Olympic gold medals with USA Basketball and leading the WNBA in all-time scoring by more than 2,000 points. Katie Ledecky, Mia Hamm, Lindsey Vonn, and Simone Biles have similar resumes particular to their sport. Their inspirational stories of hard work, dedication, and accomplishment are laid out for readers of this set, written with struggling and reluctant readers in mind.
SLJ Review of GOAT: Women in Sports
Gr 4–6—These volumes chronicle the careers of seven American female athletes. Basketball player Caitlin Clark broke the NCAA men’s scoring record while playing for the University of Iowa, Diana Taurasi was the first WNBA player to score 10,000 points, and swimmer Katie Ledecky led Stanford to an NCAA championship in addition to racking up Olympic medals. Lindsey Vonn won the World Cup in Alpine Skiing in 2007, Mia Hamm helped American women win the 1999 world championship in soccer, and Serena Williams won 39 Grand Slam titles. Outside of birth and family information, there is almost no mention of personal lives; the focus is solely on their athletic careers. Pictures of the subjects in action accompany the texts. These titles are suitable introductions to notable female athletes however, they are already outdated. Katie Ledecky’s and Diana Taurasi’s participation in the 2024 Olympics are omitted. Hamm and Williams are the subjects of many other biographies, some of which are more comprehensive. The volume on Clark will be the most useful as she has only recently been in the spotlight.