Babe Didrikson Essay
Before the late 1500s, it was deemed inappropriate for women to play in sports. It wasn’t until around 776 B.C. when women began to participate in foot races and even after women were allowed to compete in the Olympics, hey still had a hard time being accepted into athletic teams. However, these problems didńt seem to daunt Babe Didrikson.
Born in June 26, 1911, Mildred Ella (Babe) Didrikson Zaharias was the sixth out of seven siblings. Her family moved to Beaumont, Texas in the year 1915 where they were encouraged by both their parents to participate in athletic activities. Mildred Didrikson earned her nickname when she began playing baseball and the boys on her team thought she batted like Babe Ruth and she was also a talented basketball …show more content…
Between 1930 and 1932 she led the team to two finals and a national championship and was voted All-American each season. Didrikson represented the company as a one-woman team in eight of ten track and field events at the 1932 Amateur Athletic Union Championships. In three hours Didrikson single-handedly amassed thirty points, eight more than the entire second-place team, and broke four world records. Her performances in the javelin throw, hurdles, and high jump qualified her to enter the 1932 Olympics, where she again broke world records in all three events. When she returned home, her family was badly in need of money and Babe had to push aside sports to help them. Then, in the year 1933 she began taking lessons for golf. Her first tournament was the Fort Worth Women's Invitational on November 1932; at her second, the Texas Women's Amateur Championship the following April, she captured the title. Babe Didrikson dominated in many other sports, competed in many other competitions, and broke many world records. She later got married to a professional wrestler named George Zaharias. In the year 1953, Babe went through surgery to remove cancerous tissue from her body, and despite the medical predictions that she would never be able to play championship golf again, she was in
Born in June 26, 1911, Mildred Ella (Babe) Didrikson Zaharias was the sixth out of seven siblings. Her family moved to Beaumont, Texas in the year 1915 where they were encouraged by both their parents to participate in athletic activities. Mildred Didrikson earned her nickname when she began playing baseball and the boys on her team thought she batted like Babe Ruth and she was also a talented basketball …show more content…
Between 1930 and 1932 she led the team to two finals and a national championship and was voted All-American each season. Didrikson represented the company as a one-woman team in eight of ten track and field events at the 1932 Amateur Athletic Union Championships. In three hours Didrikson single-handedly amassed thirty points, eight more than the entire second-place team, and broke four world records. Her performances in the javelin throw, hurdles, and high jump qualified her to enter the 1932 Olympics, where she again broke world records in all three events. When she returned home, her family was badly in need of money and Babe had to push aside sports to help them. Then, in the year 1933 she began taking lessons for golf. Her first tournament was the Fort Worth Women's Invitational on November 1932; at her second, the Texas Women's Amateur Championship the following April, she captured the title. Babe Didrikson dominated in many other sports, competed in many other competitions, and broke many world records. She later got married to a professional wrestler named George Zaharias. In the year 1953, Babe went through surgery to remove cancerous tissue from her body, and despite the medical predictions that she would never be able to play championship golf again, she was in