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The Complete Golfer
As more women discover the joys of golf and take to the greens, this complete guide provides everything they need to know to master and enjoy the game. Packed with expert training tips from one of the biggest stars of the LPGA tour, this book covers every step from choosing equipment to becoming a strong competitor. Lopez takes readers through the fundamentals, around the greens, into the sand and other tough shots, and shares her secrets to hitting farther and taking strokes off your score. Women who are just starting the sport as well as seasoned players will find a wealth of valuable insights on how to make the most of practice time, build a strong game strategy, and, perhaps most important, slow down and have fun. This practical guide includes Lopez's personal advice on staying in shape, creating a healthy balance between career and family, advice on playing golf while pregnant, and how to teach a kid to play.
Nancy
The candid and uplifting memoir of World Golf Hall of Fame legend, Latino role model, working mother, and wife Nancy Lopez. The 1970s were a time of sweeping social change, including the passage of Title IX, which leveled the gender playing field in sports—the decade when professional golfer Nancy Lopez burst onto the national stage, revolutionizing the game and becoming an icon for millions of young women. Nancy is the unlikely true story of this Mexican-American girl from a working class family, blessed with enormous talent and a blazing dream, who would rise to the top of the sport she loved, find fame and love, raise children, and manage a career. Yet as the champion golfer reveals, he...
Nancy Lopez
Influential Hispanic figures can be found worldwide and in all fields of endeavor including science, politics, education, the arts, sports, religion, and literature. Each of these individuals has a unique and fascinating story to tell. These stories are the subjects of The Twentieth Century's Most Influential Hispanics, a biography series from Lucent Books. Vivid narrative, fully documented primary and secondary source quotations, a bibliography, thorough index, and mix of color and black-and-white photographs enhance each volume and provide excellent starting points for research and discussion. Book jacket.
Hopeful Girls, Troubled Boys
This book is an ethnographic study of Carribean youth in New York City to help explain how and why schools and cities are failing boys of color.
Reading Sport
A look at power relations in sports along the axes of gender, race, class, and sexuality.
Nancy Lopez's the Complete Golfer
Nancy Lopez proudly presents the book thousands of golfers have been eagerly awaiting, covering all the essential time-proven playing techniques that have ensured her repeated successes. 150 black-and-white photographs.
Fundamentals of Sociology of Sport and Physical Activity
Fundamentals of Sociology of Sport and Physical Activity presents information on sociology of sport to prepare readers for advanced study or practice in the field. A quick professional reference and an excellent resource for students, this text offers insights into this exciting field, explores the impact of sport in society, and examines careers in sport and physical activity that can benefit from sociological insights. Written by a team with experience in both academia and community-based sport leadership, Fundamentals of Sociology of Sport and Physical Activity introduces readers to some of the common and ongoing sociocultural questions in this field, including those of equity in gender a...
Contemporary Issues in Sociology of Sport
Melnick, PhD, Contemporary Issues in Sociology of Sport includes: an exploration of topics and themes that have received limited attention in other sociology of sport texts but have been long-standing social concerns; a review of the attitudes toward female athletes and the anti-homosexual phobias present in sport; an in-depth look at the impoverishment of children's games in America; an overview of high school sport participation; a study of the challenges and benefits of the big-time collegiate sport experience; a critique of television's impact on sport and its portrayal of gender and race, and a review of sport and globalization. Unit I provides the reader with a historical background on the development of sociology of sport and addresses several critical issues about the relationship between sociology, physical education, and sociology of sport.
Chicken Soup for the Woman Golfer's Soul
A celebration of the exciting future and explosive growth taking place in women's golf-a powerful mix of hope, perspective, insight and humor for the fastest-growing segment of the game.
Athletes of Purpose
Meet 50 diverse athletes whose personal stories will inspire students and challenge them to consider their own potential for success. One-page biographical profiles are followed by reading and social studies activities that promote critical thinking and writing. Useful in many different school and home settings.
