🎾0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ Suzanne Lenglen
Meet Suzanne Lenglen, the trailblazing albeit at times controversial tennis player who as one of the first international sports stars helped revolutionize the game and sporting fashions in Europe and the United States in the 1920s and 1930s.
⚽️0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣ Arianna Criscione
Meet Arianna Criscione, a football industry professional and former pro player advancing women’s football on both sides of the Atlantic.
⚽️0️⃣2️⃣3️⃣ Laura Georges
Meet Laura Georges, Secretary-General of the French Football Federation (FFF) and former international and professional footballer who was one of the first French women to play NCAA D1 football in 2004.
🎾0️⃣2️⃣2️⃣ Mary K. Browne
Meet Mary Kendall Browne, a pioneering professional tennis player nicknamed “Brownie,” who in 1926 became the first American woman to contest the French women’s championship title–today’s Roland Garros tournament.
🏀0️⃣2️⃣1️⃣ Isabelle Fijalkowski
Meet Isabelle Fijalkowski, the 2001 European Champion and 1999 Vice European Champion who in 1997 was one of the first Frenchwomen to play in the WNBA.
⚽️0️⃣2️⃣0️⃣ Frédéric Lipka
Meet Frédéric Lipka, a soccer tactician who is helping Major League Soccer reengineer its youth development.
🏀🔍0️⃣1️⃣9️⃣ Jon Pastuszek
Meet Jon Pastuszek, an international basketball scout helping to identify the next wave of players looking to realize their hoops dreams in the NBA.
🏀0️⃣1️⃣8️⃣ Rémy Raisner
Meet Rémy Raisner, a Franco-American NCAA player who helped colleagues on both sides of the Atlantic better understand the “other” through basketball.
🏀📺0️⃣1️⃣7️⃣ Johan Rat
Meet Johan Rat, a basketball coach, television analyst, and former NCAA D1 player who helped bring NCAA March Madness to French living rooms.
🎿0️⃣1️⃣6️⃣ Donna Weinbrecht
Meet Donna Weinbrecht, the three-time Olympian and five-time World Cup Championship titan who won the historic first gold medal in freestyle moguls at the 1992 Albertville Games.
🏈🏉0️⃣1️⃣5️⃣ Richard Tardits
Meet Richard Tardits, a rugby player from Bayonne who following a storied career with the University of Georgia became the first French player in the National Football League (NFL).
🏀0️⃣1️⃣4️⃣ Michel Rat
Meet Michel Rat, a basketball player, coach, and administrator who helped translate U.S. style basketball techniques to generations of French players from 1962 to today.
🥇🥈🥉0️⃣1️⃣3️⃣ Pierre de Coubertin
Meet Pierre de Coubertin, the French aristocrat who founded the modern Olympic movement and was influenced in part by the sports culture he observed during his 1889 and 1893 trips to the United States.
🎽0️⃣1️⃣2️⃣ DeHart Hubbard
Meet DeHart Hubbard, the first U.S. Black athlete to win a gold medal in an individual event at the 1924 Paris Olympics.
🏀0️⃣1️⃣1️⃣ Martin Feinberg
Meet Martin Feinberg, the player and coach who was one of the first Americans to mark French basketball in the 1950s.
🏀0️⃣1️⃣0️⃣ Paoline Ekambi
Meet Paoline Ekambi, the 1993 European Vice-Champion and first French female to play NCAA Division 1 basketball in 1984.
🏀0️⃣0️⃣9️⃣ Diandra Tchatchouang
Meet Diandra Tchatchouang, the Olympic-medal winning activist whose time playing NCAA basketball influenced her on-court game and off-court work back home.
🏀0️⃣0️⃣8️⃣ Katia Foucade-Hoard
Meet Katia Foucade-Hoard, the 1993 European Vice-Champion and first French woman to play four years of NCAA D1 basketball on scholarship.
🏀0️⃣0️⃣7️⃣ Gabby Williams
Meet Gabby Williams, the Franco-American WNBA veteran whose polyvalent hoops abilities helped Les Bleues win EuroBasket 2021 silver and Tokyo 2020 Olympic bronze medals.
⛳0️⃣0️⃣6️⃣ Margaret Ives Abbott
Meet Margaret Abbott, the first American woman to win an Olympic event in the golf competition at the Paris Olympics of 1900.