Flashback Athlete of the Month for July 2021 Instagram Bio Highlight Bio Tim Duncan is a former NBA player who played 19 seasons with the San Antonio Spurs. He won five NBA Championships with the Spurs, as well as was named an All Star a whopping 15 times in his career. He retired from playing […]
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Kobe Bryant
Flashback Athlete of the Month for June 2021 Bio Highlight Bio Kobe Bryant was an NBA basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers. He played shooting guard with the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association for his entire 20-year career (NBA). Bryant was an 18-time All-Star, a 15-time member of the All-NBA Team, […]
Lisa Leslie
Flashback Athlete of the Month for May 2021 Facebook Twitter Instagram Bio Highlight Bio Our pick of the month for flashback athlete is basketball star Lisa Leslie. Leslie began playing in middle school as a favor and has been unstoppable ever since. When she was only 14, before she had even begun her first day […]
Billie Jean King
Flashback Athlete of the Month for April 2021 Facebook Twitter Instagram Mouse-pointer Bio Highlights Bio Billie Jean king is an icon in both the tennis world and the women’s rights movement. She is regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time and in 1973 won the highly contested “battle of the sexes” […]
Allen Iverson
Flashback Athlete of the Month for March 2021 Facebook Twitter Instagram Bio Highlight Bio Allen Iverson, former NBA superstar is our flashback athlete for the month of March. Iverson was a star starting as early as high school where he earned the Associated Press High School player of the year award for both football and […]
Brandon Roy
Flashback Athlete of the Month for February 2021 Bio Highlights Bio Brandon Dawayne Roy is an American basketball coach and former player. He played for the Portland Trail Blazers and Minnesota Timberwolves during his time with the NBA. Some of his nicknames include “B-Roy” and “The Natural”. In 2012, he played five games with the […]
Steve Young
Flashback Athlete of the Month for January 2021 Twitter Bio Highlight Bio January’s Flashback Athelte of the Month is awarded to legendary 49ers quarterback Steve Young. On January 29th, 1995, Young was awarded the Super Bowl MVP after defeating the San Diego Chargers 49-26 in Super Bowl XXIX. Young threw for a Super Bowl record […]
Joe Namath
Flashback Athlete of the Month for December 2020 Facebook Twitter Instagram Bio Highlight Bio Joe Namath was an American Football player who played most of his AFL and NFL career as a Quarterback for the New York Jets. He played college football for Alabama during the years of 1962-1964. After playing for the New York […]
Jackie Robinson
Flashback Athlete of the Month for November 2020 Bio Highlight Bio Jack Roosevelt Robinson, otherwise known as Jackie Robinson, was born on January 31st, 1919. He was an American baseball player and was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. In 1962, Robinson was inducted into the […]
Becky Hammon
Flashback Athlete of the Month for September 2020 Facebook Twitter Instagram Bio Highlight Bio Born Rebecca Lynn Hammon, Becky Hammon is an American professional basketball coach and a former player. She was a three-time All-American basletball player for the Colorado State Rams and played for the San Antonio Stars and New York Liberty in the […]
Darryl Strawberry
Flashback Athlete of the Month for September 2020 Instagram Bio Highlights Bio For many African American males growing up in poverty-stricken households throughout Los Angeles, sports offered a chance to break away from the cultural and economic restraints imposed on them by their surroundings. This was no different for a young Darryl Eugene Strawberry (born […]
Janet Evans
Flashback Athlete of the Month for August 2020 Twitter Instagram Bio Highlight Bio Janet Evans is a former competitive swimmer who would mainly compete in distance freestyle events. She is a world record holder and has earned four gold medals at the 1988 and 1992 Olympics. Evans was born in Fullerton, California where she began […]
