1. Pat Summitt

During Pat Summitt’s 38 year career, she helped revolutionize women’s basketball from just a sport to one of the most popular sports in America. Summitt is the winningest coach in NCAA Division I basketball history with 1,038 wins, including eight National Championships with the University of Tennessee.

2. Ann Meyers Drysdale

Ann Meyers Drysdale made history by being the first female ever to be selected to the U.S. National team and to receive a full athletic scholarship for basketball from UCLA. She then signed an NBA contract with the Indiana Pacers. She did not make the roster, but instead made history by being the only female to ever sign an NBA contract. In 1993, Meyers Drysdale was inducted into the basketball Hall of Fame.

3. Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Mildred Ella “Babe” Didrikson Zaharias is considered to be one of the greatest athletes of all time. Didrikson Zaharias won three medals in the 1932 Olympics, was an AAU basketball All-American and won 41 golf titles at the professional level. She is the only female to ever make the cut in a PGA event. The year of her death, 1995, she was one of the top-ranked golfers.

4. Billie Jean King

Billie Jean King won 12 Grand Slam singles titles and 129 singles titles. Her most historic match was called “The Battle of the Sexes” against Bobby Riggs. With over 50 million people tuned in watching, King defeated Riggs, concluding a lifetime of activism for women’s equality.

5.  Serena Williams

Considered to be one of the best tennis players ever, at the age of 34 she is still ranked number one in the world for the seventh time. Williams holds 94 career WTA titles. She also has won 22 Grand Slam titles. Williams is also one of the only tennis players, of either gender, to have won singles titles at least six times.