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TRACK & FIELD Willye White (below, far left) Jenny Adams (above)

Resume Top . long jumper in the Sixth place at 2003
 1960s. First woman to compete World Outdoor Track
 for the . in five Olympics: & Field
 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972. Championships in
 Two silver medals. 100-meter hurdles;
 third place at 2003
 USA Outdoor
 Championships in
 long jump
Events 4X100 relay; long jump 100m hurdles; long
 jump
Age at 1st Olympics 17 26
Training schedule 5-6 days a week, 3-4 hours a 5-6 days a week, 3-
 day 4 hours a day
Training philosophy "Quality over quantity" "Short and
 powerful"
Surface trained on Dirt or grass Synthetic rubber
Support system None: "I didn't have the Coach, physical
 money." therapist,
 chiropractor,
 acupuncturist,
 sports psychologist
Weight training "I didn't lift weights until I Three days a week,
 was 25 years old. We ran 6 sets of 2 reps of
 stairs, hills and did chin-ups 3 exercises
 and pull-ups three times a (squats, power
 day." cleans, snatches)
 with 2-minute
 breaks
Power breakfast Pancakes Eggs
Olympic uniform Cotton T-shirt, polyester Lycra tank jog bra
 briefs and buns (current
 term for briefs)
Spikes 1 pair of custom-made Leather Nike Super
 kangaroo-leather spikes. "I Shift; use 2 pairs
 bought them in Melbourne for per year
 the 1956 Olympics. They lasted
 me my whole career. I just
 changed the spikes."
Training None DARTFISH, video
technology technology that
 shows athletic
 movements frame-
 by-frame and can
 superimpose the
 performance of two
 athletes
Drug testing None. "In my day the concern Continually: "I was
 was pseudohermaphrodites: men tested 15 times
 competing as women. So there last year."
 were mandatory sex tests (Mandatory drug
 beginning in 1965." testing was
 implemented in
 1976.)
Accommodations Olympic Village Hotel
at the Olympics
Career Full-time nurse; after 1965, a Full-time athlete
 public health administrator
 for Chicago's Department of
 Health
Financing Mayor Daley Youth Foundation Sponsored by Nike.
 paid for all uniforms and AdvoCare (a
 traveling and subsidized her nutritional
 nursing degree. supplements
 company) and VISA.
 Earns prize money
 from competitions.

GYMNASTICS Muriel Davis Grossfeld (below) Tasha Schwikert
 (above)

Resume 1957 and 1963 National 2001 and 2002
 Gymnastics Champion. Attended National Gymnastics
 three Olympics; 1956, 1960 and Champion; captain
 1964. "Our team finished dead of gold-medal-
 last at the Olympics. It took winning 2003 World
 40 years to build the program Champion Team.
 up to where it is now." Attended the 2000
 Olympics.
Age at 1st Olympics 15 15
Training schedule 7 days a week, 7-9 hours a day 6 days a week, 6
 hours a day
National training None . Women's
center National Team
 Training Center,
 Huntsville, TX
Equipment Vault: wood, oversize horse Vault: padded table
 with wood board. Uneven bars: with springboard.
 wood. Balance beam: wood with Uneven bars: wood
 four sharp edges. Floor: wood with fiberglass.
 with carpeting. Balance beam: wood
 or steel, with
 suedelike material
 and rounded edges.
 Floor: spring-or
 foam-block system
 with carpeting.
Support system Self-trained Same coach since
 she was 7 years old
Weight training/ Medicine ball workout: press No weight training.
cardio/ab training handstands with 30-pound Running: 2-3 miles,
 medicine ball between her 2 days a week.
 legs. "I could also do 50 Abdominal work:
 straight-arm push-ups. And in crunches, hollow
 a fitness study done at the body rocks (limbs
 University of Illinois. I was off the floor, use
 deemed more fit than the abs to rock back
 school's football players." and forth).
 Running: 1-2 miles. 3 days a Plyometrics.
 week. Abdominal work: sit-ups
 with legs up the wall, incline
 sit-ups. Plyometrics.
Training snack Coke Slim-Fast bar
Judging Hand-scored Computerized
Financing Taught dance and had Hollywood . National Team
 contracts. "I was very poor funding
 those [Olympic] years."

BASKETBALL Nancy Lieberman-Cline (below) Sue Bird (below)

Resume ESPN commentator; WNBA player Selected for the
 and coach; member of the 2004 USA Basketball
 first women's Olympic National Team to
 basketball team, first woman compete in Athens;
 to play in a men's No. 1 pick in the
 professional league. Attended 2002 WNBA draft by
 the 1976 Olympics and won a the Seattle Storm
 silver medal.
Position Point guard Point guard
Age at 1st Olympics 17 23
Training location Far Rockaway High School, New The Storm's training
 York facility, Seattle
Game time 4-5 hours a day: high school 2 hours day with the
 team and neighborhood pickup Seattle Storm. "And
 games during the WNBA
 season, I play 40
 minutes a night, 3-4
 days a week."
Cardio workout Running: 2-3 days a week, 2-3 Running: 2-3 days a
 miles a day. Court drills: week, 2 miles a day.
 suicides, slides and other Court drills:
 sprint workouts. suicides, slides and
 other sprint
 workouts. Pool
 workouts: running
 against a current.
Support system None Strength-and-
 conditioning
 trainer; deep-tissue
 massages
Weight training 3 days a week. Whole body: 6- 3 days a week. Whole
 8 reps with free weights. body: 6-10 reps with
 free weights and
 machines.
Accommodations Olympic Village. "There were A hotel, most
at the Olympics 12 . athletes in one dorm likely. "I'd like to
 suite. There was one TV and stay in the Olympic
 no air conditioning." Village for at least
 a couple of nights
 to experience it."
Security at the High. "There were men with Expected to be high
Olympics bayonets on our bus, and we
 would put our gym bags
 through metal detectors
 before entering the arena."
Power dinner Chicken, rice and salad Burrito
Food philosophy "Eat what I want to." "What I eat isn't as
 important as when I
 eat." Eats 1-2 hours
 before workout, 30
 minutes after
 workout.
Olympic uniform Snug short shorts, fitted Reebok PlayDry 2/3
 tank mesh knee-length
 baggy shorts and
 loose jersey
Footwear Converse All Stars Nike Air Zoom
 Huarache 24K
Referees at the All male Male and female. "I
international level don't even notice
 anymore when there's
 a female ref."