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Swimmer Helene Madison (1913–1970) of Seattle won three gold medals at the 1932 Olympic Games.
Seattle is home to an all-female flat track roller derby league called the Rat City Rollergirls.
The Seattle Dojo, which was founded before 1907, is the oldest judo academy in the United States.
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“Falling in love is the right adventure for those who dislike sports and travel.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Short of a wholesale reform of college athletics—a complete breakdown of the whole system that is now focused on money and power—the women’s programs are just as doomed as the men’s are to move further and further away from the academic mission of their colleges.... We have to decide if that’s the kind of success for women’s sports that we want.”
—Christine H. B. Grant, U.S. university athletic director. As quoted in the Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A42 (May 12, 1993)