Timeline of women's sports in the United States Lyle Alberga, was the first of three women to play Negro league baseball, and thus the first woman to play as a regular on an American big-league professional baseball team. 1954 - The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League played its last season. 1955 - The first LPGA championship was held. 1959 - Arlene Pieper became the first woman to officially finish a marathon in the United States when she finished the Pikes Peak Marathon. 1960 - Mary McGee earns a FIM license and becomes the first official female motorcycle racer in the United States. 1961 - The WIBC Queens all-female
Asami Yoshida (basketball) as well as being named to the Best 5, four times. Yoshida has been a consistent member of the Japanese national team since 2007. Since then, the Japanese team has medalled at each FIBA Asia Championship. She was named to the FIBA Asia All-Tournament Team in 2013 and 2015, also winning the Championship on both occasions. She made her Olympic debut at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Asami Yoshida (basketball) Asami Yoshida (吉田 亜沙美 born October 9, 1987) is a Japanese professional basketball player for the JX-Eneos Sunflowers of the Women's Japan Basketball League (WJBL). Yoshida