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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sidelined with an injury, 26-year-old Grace Henderson, a star of the US Women’s National Team, falls for Phoebe Matthews, whom she considers her rival, and as the World Cup approaches and Grace gets back in the game, they must decide what’s more important—being together or making the roster.
82) Eddie the Eagle
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by true events, it is a feel-good story about Michael 'Eddie' Edwards, an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself, even as an entire nation was counting him out. With the help of a rebellious and charismatic coach, Eddie takes on the establishment and wins the hearts of sports fans around the world by making an improbable and historic showing at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.
83) Sports dream
Author
Series
Publisher
Treasure Bay
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
27 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A boy dreams of being a great sports star. In his dreams he is the best player in every sport: baseball, soccer, hockey, dirt bike race, and even fishing! However, he is really only great at one thing in sports-- he is a great sports fan! Both the writing and the illustrations help to make this a very funny book.--Summary taken from Treasure Bay website.
84) Unbroken
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Olympian and war hero Louis Zamperini survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
85) Unbroken
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (137 mins.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Olympian and war hero Louis Zamperini survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen; [English/Spanish subtitled version].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A former sports star who's fallen on hard times starts coaching his son's soccer team as a way to get his life together. His attempts to become an adult are met with challenges from the attractive soccer moms who pursue him at every turn.
88) Foxcatcher
Language
English
Formats
Description
The dark and fascinating story of the unlikely and ultimately tragic relationship between an eccentric multi-millionaire and two champion wrestlers.
89) Billie
Series
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A high school girl joins the boys' track team.
90) Woodlawn
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1973, a spiritual awakening captured the heart of nearly every player of the Woodlawn High School football team, including its coach Tandy Gerelds. Their dedication to love and unity in a school filled with racism and hate leads to the largest high school football game ever played in the torn city of Birmingham, Alabama, and the rise of its first African American superstar, Tony Nathan.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1997
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
96 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents twenty true stories of athletes--mostly admirable, occasionally quirky--whose physical accomplishments create a world of thrills and spills.
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"This timely and urgent text presents cutting-edge research exploring the complexities of barriers to inclusive access to sport and physical activity, and discusses how sport, and society, can move forward beyond the gender binary, in both theory and practice. Sport is one of the most influential, powerful, and visible institutions upholding the gender binary, even as the number of people identifying as transgender and non-binary increases rapidly...
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
127 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Illustrated profiles of fifty pioneering female athletes, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Women in Science. A charmingly illustrated and inspiring book, Women in Sports highlights the achievements and stories of fifty notable women athletes--from well-known figures like tennis player Billie Jean King and gymnast Simone Biles, to lesser-known athletes like skateboarding pioneer Patti McGee and Toni Stone, the first woman to play baseball...
94) Wildest dreams
Author
Series
Thunder Point novels volume 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Blake Smiley searched the country for just the right place to call home. The professional triathlete has traveled the world, but Thunder Point has what he needs to put down the roots he's never had. In the quiet coastal town he can focus on his training without distractions. Until he meets his new neighbors and everything changes. Lin Su Simmons and her teenage son, Charlie, are fixtures at Winnie Banks's house as Lin Su nurses Winnie through the...
Author
Publisher
Hudson Street Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Veteran journalist Mark McClusky brings readers behind the scenes with a new generation of athletes, coaches, and scientists whose accomplishments are changing our understanding of human physical achievement and completely redefining the limits of the human body.
96) Fence
Author
Series
Publisher
BOOM! Box
Pub. Date
2020-
Physical Desc
volumes (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Just as Nicholas, Seiji and the fencing team at the prestigious Kings Row private school seem to be coming together, a deadly rival from their past stands in their way once more. MLC is the school that knocked Kings Row out of the State Championships last year-but unless Nicholas and Seiji can learn to work together as a team, their school is doomed once again! And maybe those two can learn to be something more than just teammates . . .
Author
Series
Publisher
Liberty Street, an imprint of Time, Inc. Books, a division of Meredith Corporation
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
IG 1160L
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Offers profiles of over one hundred prominent women athletes that outline the impact they had on their sports, as well as the lives they lived, on and off the field.
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Encore ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A popular high school basketball star and a shy, academically gifted newcomer secretly decide to audition for their school's musical, a decision that turns their world and their school upside down.
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