Amanda Borden is a retired American gymnast. She is best known for competing in the 1996 Summer Olympics. Borden was the team captain for the American gymnast team that won gold that year. Referred to as the Magnificent Seven, with all six other members submitting her name in the vote, including the more experienced Shannon Miller. Her vivacious personality and... read full bio
Amanda Beard is a seven-time Olympic medal-winning swimmer, known for overcoming many obstacles to achieve her dreams. Amanda devotes her time doing appearances for her Olympic Sponsors, speaking engagements for Breast Cancer awareness and talking with young swimmers throughout the United States about overcoming obstacles and setting high goals. She inspires women of all ages to be confident. Amanda... read full bio
Aly Wagner is a sports broadcaster and a retired American soccer player who played midfielder for Women’s Professional Soccer as well as for the United States women’s national soccer team. Wagner was born in San Jose, California, and during high school, she was on the varsity team and was named CCS Player of the Year twice and was selected as... read full bio
Gymnast and two-time Olympian Aly Raisman was a member and captain of both the famed “Fierce Five” and “Final Five” U.S. women’s Olympic gymnastics team, which both took home gold. At the Olympics in London, Aly also won the gold medal in the floor competition and the bronze medal on the balance beam, making her the most decorated American gymnast... read full bio
Alvin Harper is a retired American football wide receiver that played in the NFL. He has been playing football since he was in high school where he made it into the USA Today high school All-American honors. He went on to study at the University of Tennessee where he played college football. Harper was not only good at football but... read full bio
Seven-time NBA All-Star and Olympic gold medal-winner Alonzo Mourning is a now-retired player who played the majority of his career for the Miami Heat. He played center and power forward positions, and he also played for the Charlotte Hornets and the New Jersey Nets. Mourning has been inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame. Though Mourning was revered on the... read full bio
Allyson Felix had one of the best performances ever by an American woman at the Olympics, bringing home three gold medals. Felix emerged as the new American Female sprinter to watch going into the Athens Olympic Games and she did not disappoint, bringing her country home a silver medal in the 200-meter race. She has gone on to become not... read full bio
Allen Iverson, also known as “The Answer”, is a former professional basketball player for the NBA. He played college basketball at Georgetown and while there won Big East Rookie of the Year, was named to the All Rookie Tournament First Team, and was named as a First Team All American. He was the selected first overall by the Philadelphia 76ers... read full bio
Allen Doyle is a retired American professional golfer who played on the Nike Tour, PGA Tour, and Champions Tour. He made headlines when he became the oldest rookie in history at the time to become a professional on the PGA Tour at 49 years old. Prior to playing professional, Doyle had 23 Amateur wins and during his first year going... read full bio
Alisson Becker, also known as just Alisson, is a Brazilian professional footballer that plays as a goalkeeper for the Premier League club Liverpool, as well as for the Brazil national team. Becker was born in Novo Hamburgo, Brazil, and he began his career playing with the youth academy for Internacional. From there, he went on to play for Internacional professionally,... read full bio
Alison Nicholas is a retired English professional golfer. She started playing golf when she was 17 and had a great amateur career and won the Northern Girls Amateur Open two years in a row. She also was the champion of the British Amateur Stroke Play and in the same year won the Yorkshire Ladies County Championship. After, Nicholas became a... read full bio
American Cyclist Alison Dunlap has competed in two Olympics representing United States. She started off competing in the road race, but eventually transitioned into mountain biking and competed in the cross-country mountain bike event. Dunlap is an eight-time champion in the World Mountain Bike Championship. Among many of her huge achievements some of them include, winning a gold medal in... read full bio
Alice Ritzman is a retired American professional golfer who played on the LPGA tour for 20 years. Prior to playing as a professional, Ritzman grew up in Montana where she participated in the Montana Junior Championships, which she won three times. During her time in Montana she also won the Montana State Womens Amateur Championship twice and was also inducted... read full bio
Alexi Lalas is an American retired soccer player who has played as defender and is known for playing with the United States men’s national soccer team in the FIFA World Cup. Lalas was born in Birmingham, Michigan, and he began playing soccer when he was 11 years old. During his high school years, he was named the Michigan High School... read full bio
Alexei Yagudin is a retired Russian figure skater. He competed twice in the Winter Olympics where he represented Russia and won a Gold medal at the Salt Lake City games. He has won Gold in the World Championships four times, won Gold in the European Championships three times, won Gold in the Grand Prix Finals twice, and won Gold once... read full bio
Alexandra Stevenson is a professional tennis player who made her professional debut at Wimbledon and made a name of herself when she became the first woman to qualify in the tennis open era to reach semi-finals. Stevenson has played in Grand Slam Doubles in the Australian Open, the French Open twice, Wimbledon, and the US Open four separate times. She... read full bio
Alexander Ovechkin, also known as “Ovi”, “the Great Eight” and “Alexander the Great”, is a Russian professional ice hockey winger and captain of the Washington Capitals of the NHL. Ovechkin was born in Moscow, Russia, and began his career playing in the Russian Super League in Dynamo Moscow. He went on to be selected by the Washington Capitals in the... read full bio
Alexander Kristoff is a Norwegian professional road bicycle racer currently with the UCI World Team UAE Team Emirates. He has won several races including, 3 individual stages of the Tour de France, Three Days of De Panne, Tour des Fjords twice, Milan-San Remo, Tour of Flanders, National Road Race Championships twice, and many more. Kristoff started his career with the... read full bio
Alex Smith is an American football quarterback who currently plays for the Washington Football Team of the NFL. Smith was born in Bremerton, Washington, and he grew up in La Mesa, California. He began playing football in high school where he helped lead his team to two San Diego CIF section championships. During this time he was on the first-team... read full bio
Alex O’Brien is a retired American professional tennis player who competed for the ATP Tour. Among O’Brien’s many accomplishments he became at one point the world No. 1 doubles player and was ranked No. 30 in the world in singles at one point. O’Brien has played in the U.S. Open, French Open, Australian Open, Wimbledon, and in the Olympic Games.... read full bio
