“One of The Girls” by Leslie Heywood is a wonderful article about women proving themselves in the world of sports. It begins with the story of Gertrude Ederle who defied the odds of being a woman and swimming the English Channel. She blew everyone out of the water and swam it two hours faster than any man ever had. She knew from the very start this task could be done, but her ultimate goal was to prove she could do better than the record, set by a man. The other example in the article is set forty-one years later in Boston, Massachusetts. Kathrine Switzer, a trained runner, set her sights on running the 26.2 mile race, the Boston Marathon. There was only one small problem, women weren’t allowed to race, but did Kathrine let this stop her?
