Breaking records and taking names

t’s been a stellar 14 months for women on the field and the fans supporting them. Our favorite moments?

• We can’t have an IWD email and not talk about college basketball player Sabrina Ionescu (pronounced YOH-NESS-COO). Just last month, this Oregon Duck senior solidified herself as the best collegiate basketball athlete of all time when she became the first NCAA player — yes male or female — to reach 2,000 points, 1,000 assists and 1,000 rebounds. What, like it’s hard?

• And then there’s Christine Sinclair. At the end of January 2020, this humble and tenacious leader of the Canadian women’s national soccer team (CANWNT) became the all-time leading goal scorer — again, male or female — in international soccer history. Forget “Bend it like Beckham,” let’s “Bend it like Sinclair.”

• Women’s hockey also got in on the fun. For the final game of the Rivalry Series between Team USA and Team Canada, a record 13,320 fans filled the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, the most for a U.S. women’s hockey game played on home soil.

• How could we talk about women killing it and not talk about American gymnast Simone Biles? In October 2019, Biles became the most decorated gymnast — we repeat, male or female — at the World Championships winning an all-time record of 25 world medals, including 19 golds. Just imagine what her trophy case looks like.