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History of Women in Sports Timeline - 2012
"I can't really take in what I've done."
- Laura Dekker, 16-year-old Dutch teen sailor who soloed around the world.
- 2012: 16-year-old Dutch teen sailor Laura Dekker beats Jessica Watson's record for youngest youngest solo world sailing tour at 16, completing her epic journey on Jan. 22 when she sailed into harbor on the Caribbean island of St. Maarten. She left the island January 20, 2011 - beating the previous record by some eight months; her 17th birthday is in September.
- 2012 - Felicity Aston reaches Hercules Inlet, completing her 1744 km, 59 day trek to become the first female to traverse Antarctica solo, transporting her own supplies by hand on two sleds, on Jan. 22.
- 2012 - TITLE IX Report: the 35th annual survey of the status of women in intercollegiate athletics finds record numbers of female athletes and teams, coaches and administrators in college programs.
- 2012 - USA Basketball names Breanna Stewart, a star basketball player at Cicero-North Syracuse and a member of two USA national teams last year, as the 2011 Female Athlete of the Year. She was a member of the gold-medal winning 2011 USA U19 World Championship Team that competed in Puerto Montt, Chile and the 2011 USA Pan American Games Team that competed in Guadalajara, Mexico.
- 2012 - Victoria Azarenka wins the Australian to capture a Grand Slam title and the No. 1 tennis ranking for the first time, defeating three-time Grand Slam winner Maria Sharapova, 6-3, 6-0.
- 2012 - The United Arab Emirates will host the first Arab Women's Sports Tournament at the Sharjah Ladies Club from Feb. 2-12. Clubs from 12 countries will compete in events including basketball, volleyball, shooting and table tennis.
- 2012 - 19-year-old Spaniard Lara Arruabarrena-Vecino wins the Copa BBVA Colsanitas in Colombia. She and Eva Birnerova of the Czech Republic also won the doubles title.
- 2012 - Jessica Korda defeats five players in a two hole, sudden-death playoff to win the LPGA's Australia Open.
- 2012 Victoria Azarenka wins the Qatar Total Open for her third straight WTA title.
- 2012 - Taiwan's Yani Tseng, 23, defended her LPGA Thailand title for her 13th Tour victory.
- 2012 - The No. 10 St. Lawrence University women's hockey team defeated No. 3 Cornell in Ithaca, NY by 3-1 to win the program's first ECAC Hockey Championship.
- 2012 - Brittney Griner took the Baylor Lady Bears with 26 points, 13 rebounds and five blocks to lead Baylor to a dominating 80-61 victory over Notre Dame in the NCAA women's basketball championship, capping an unparalleled 40-0 season for the Lady Bears.
- 2012 - Pat Summitt, the University of Tennessee women's basketball coach, which starrted her career 38 years ago, when she agreed to coach the team for just $250 a month, retires as the person who won more games than any other collegiate coach in any sport. Summitt led the Lady Vols to eight national championships and 1,098 wins, the most in major-college basketball history, Tennessee has been the only school to appear in all 32 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournaments since the tournament's inception in 1982. The Lady Vols have earned a No. 1 seed in the tournament 21 times under her leadership. During the 2011-2012 season, Sports Illustrated named Summitt as Sportswoman of the Year, and the NCAA gave her the NCAA President's Gerald R. Ford Award for her leadership in intercollegiate athletics. President Barack Obama has announced that she will be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award handed out by the government.
- 2012 - Flyweight Marlen Esparza is the first American female boxer to qualify for the London Olympics, beating Luu Thi Duyen of Vietnam in the second round of the Women’s World Championshipsin in a 28-13 decision in the three-round bout.
- 40 Women Who Have Made a Significant Impact on Society After Playing High School or College Sports - The Women’s Sports Foundation (WSF), in collaboration with espnW and Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT), releases its 40 FOR 40 list of forty women who made a significant impact on society after playing sports in high school or college during the forty years of the Title IX era. The honorees will be recognized as part of a 40 FOR 40 event on June 21 at the JW Marriott in Washington, DC.
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