Billie Jean King started the Women’s Sports Foundation with a $5,000 check. She’s turned that investment into $100 million and a half century of helping girls and women achieve their dreams through travel and training grants,

When they arrive at college, they feel the same way. But when I ask those same students if they recognize the name Billie Jean King, only a handful can do so. That’s unfortunate, because King was more responsible for the revolution in women’s sports ...

Living legend Billie Jean King said her work is far from over as she celebrates a half century of advocacy for generations of female athletes this week with the 50th anniversary of the Women's Sports Foundation.

King is one of the greatest tennis players of all time. Her advocacy for women’s sports in the 1960s and 1970s revolutionized school, amateur, and professional athletics. She helped make it more acceptable for girls and women to be athletes. In 1975 Seventeen magazine polled its readers and found that King was the most admired woman in the world.

King recently joined forces with Mark and Kimba Walter to create the Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL), which will launch its second season in late November. U.S. Olympic