Nancy Hogshead-Makar, a four-time Olympic swimming medalist and Episcopal graduate, would grace any top 10 list among athletes from northeast Florida. But her mission since the 1984 Games has been fighting for equal rights for girls and women in sports.

We want to shine a spotlight on the phenomenal women in our communities.

International Women's Day is a day that recognizes and upholds the achievements of women around the world, as well as promotes gender equality.

Finally, professional women’s soccer is back this weekend.

March marks Women’s History Month, and the world has spent the past few weeks highlighting and remembering some of the most famous achievements by women throughout the course of history.

Jacqueline Cochran was a record-breaking aviatrix, entrepreneur and political mover and shaker who was close enough with President Lindon B. Johnson he refused to let her call him Mr. President.

While the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is known for celebrating excellence in music history, it’s not know for celebrating musicians of a certain category: Women.

The title of the most-decorated athlete ever belongs to United States swimmer Michael Phelps, who won 28 medals competing in five different Summer Olympics from 2000 to 2016. But there are so many highly decorated female Olympians, too.

Sandra Day O’Connor not only had a degree from one of the most prestigious universities in the world -- Stanford University in California -- but also a law degree she earned from the same institution in just two years.