Long-armed Ludy and the first women's Olympics : based on the true story of Lucile Ellerbe Godbold / Jean L.S. Patrick ; illustrated by Adam Gustavson.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, [2017]Description: 1 volume (unpaged) ; color illustrations ; 29 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781580895460
- 1580895468
- 9781632895776 (ebook)
- 1632895773 (ebook)
- 9781632895783 (ebook pdf)
- 1632895781 (ebook pdf)
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's Biography | Godbold, L. P314 | Checked out | 06/24/2024 | 33111008952471 | |||
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Biography | Godbold, L. P314 | Available | 33111008803229 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Lucille "Ludy" Godbold grew up skinny, tall, and athletic. In her ?nal year on the track team at Winthrop College in South Carolina, Ludy gave shot put a try and she made that iron ball sail with her long, skinny arms. When her coach took her to a meet in New York she quali?ed for the ?rst Women's Olympic Games in 1922. Except she had no money to go.
Ludy's college and classmates rallied around her and raised the money to send her to compete. She won the gold medal with 1 foot, 2.6 inches to spare. She'd done her friends, her school, the South, and the USA proud.
Hooray for Ludy!
Includes bibliographical references.
Shares the story of how Lucile Godbold qualified for the first Women's Olympics but had no money to go, so her college classmates helped raise money to send her to Paris where she won the gold medal.