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| | History of Women in Sports Timeline - Part 6 - 1990-1997 |
 | | 1990 - Bernadette Locke becomes the first female Division I coach of a men's basketball team when she joins the University of Kentucky as an assistant coach to Rick Pitino in June. |
 | | 1990 - Triathlete Paula Newby-Frasier is named the Women's Sports Foundation's "Professional Sportswoman of the Year." In her career she is an eight-Time Ironman Triathlon World Champion (1996, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1989, 1988, 1986). |
 | | The youngest of six children in a poor, single-parent family, she was born partially blind and ran in 25 marathons, twice placing among the top 100 women in the Boston Marathon, and carrying the torch in the International Special Olympics where she has won medals in dozens of its events. |
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