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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This film is intended to help coaches/teachers, parents, and school administrators educate students/athletes about the harmful effects of homophobia and asks the question, "How can we make sure that people in athletics are evaluated, not based on their sexual orientation or gender expression, but on their individual character and accomplishments?"
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Sporting Gender explores both the historical and current issues of defining gender in sports, especially regarding intersex and transgender athletes. It not only covers important events and regulations, but also delves into the lives of the athletes themselves to provide a personal perspective on the science of athletic performance." -- ONIX annotation.
Author
Publisher
Liberty Street, an imprint of Time, Inc. Books, a division of Meredith Corporation
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Offers profiles of over one hundred prominent women athletes that outline the impact they had on their sports, as well as the lives they lived, on and off the field.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Olympian and World Champion Caster Semenya is finally ready to share the vivid and heartbreaking story of how the world came to know her name. Thrust into the spotlight at just eighteen years old after winning the Berlin World Championships in 2009, Semenya's win was quickly overshadowed by criticism and speculation about her body, and she became the center of a still-raging firestorm about how gender plays out in sports, our expectations of female...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Jim Thorpe rose to world fame as a mythic talent who excelled at every sport. He won gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, was an All-American football player at the Carlisle Indian School, in the first class of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and played major league baseball for the New York Giants. But despite his colossal skills, Thorpe's life was a struggle against the odds. As a member of the Sac and Fox...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The champion Paralympic swimmer, born in Russia with a condition that would result in the amputation of both legs below her knee, presents a photographic memoir of the life-changing moments that helped shape who she is today.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The New York Times bestseller Eat and Run is "the inspiring story of an inspired man. Scott Jurek's phenomenal success as an ultra-marathoner demonstrates that meat and other animal foods are not necessary for optimum health, strength, and endurance."—Andrew Weil, #1 New York Times bestelling author of Spontaneous Happiness
For nearly two decades, Scott Jurek has been a dominant force — and darling — in the grueling and growing...
For nearly two decades, Scott Jurek has been a dominant force — and darling — in the grueling and growing...
11) Woodlawn
Author
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entert
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
A high school football player is faced with racial tensions on and off the field.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discover Aly Raisman's inspiring story of dedication, perseverance, and learning to think positive even in the toughest times on her path to gold medal success in two Olympic Games--and beyond.
Aly Raisman first stepped onto a gymnastics mat as a toddler in a "mommy & me" gymnastics class. No one could have predicted then that sixteen years later, she'd be standing on an Olympic podium, having achieved her dreams.
Aly's road to success was full...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The extraordinary story of the small Vermont town that has likely produced more Olympians per capita than any other place in the country--and whose citizens provide a model for achieving excellence while leading a well-rounded life. Norwich, a charming Vermont town of roughly three thousand residents, has sent an athlete to almost every Winter Olympics for the past thirty years--and three times that athlete has returned with a medal. How does Norwich...
14) Sooley
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After seventeen-year-old Samuel "Sooley" Sooleymon receives a college scholarship to play basketball for North Carolina Central, he moves to Durham from his native, war-torn South Sudan, enrolls in classes, joins the team, and prepares to sit out his freshman season, but Sooley has a fierce determination to succeed so he can bring his family to America, working tirelessly on his game until he dominates everyone in practice, and when Sooley is called...
16) Hotshot
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Peyton Lockhart and her sisters have inherited Bishop's Cove, a small, luxurious oceanfront resort, but it comes with a condition: The girls must run the resort for one year and show a profit. Only then will they own it. A graduate of a prestigious French culinary school, Peyton has just lost her job as a food critic. Out of work and in a bad place personally, a year doing something completely different sounds wonderful. There are countless challenges...
18) The long run
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When fate--in the form of a party that gets busted--brings together two very different track-and-field athletes, each trying to figure out what they want out of life, they find a love for which they'd risk everything.
Author
Publisher
Granity Studios
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After arriving at an elite sports academy. Rovi, an orphan, and Pretia, a cown princess, suspect that the school is infiltrated by an evil force, as they learn to master a magical power called grana and use it to save the world.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Two worlds collide when cycling legend Jonathan "Jock" Boyer moves to Rwanda to help the first Rwandan National Cycling Team in their six year journey to compete in the Olympic Games. Against impossible odds both Jock and the team find new purpose as they rise from the ashes of their past. Stunningly filmed, Rising From Ashes follows Jock (the first American to compete in the Tour de France) and his Rwandan riders as they slowly learn what it means...
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