text:  I love this question. If I were in my classroom, I'd make this a quiz question because usually my students land us somewhere in the 1970s, but we go all the way back to ancient Greece. And Kyniska was actually the first recorded female athlete when she entered a horse race in 392 BC. And what I love about this is not only did she win and it was unprecedented and they couldn't believe that this happened, they did not, and they were outraged.