ESPN

Generations of female athletes tell their stories in a 5500-word multimedia project written by ESPN.com's Elaine Teng and produced by ESPN Creative Studio.

And there’s still so much to be done. But I realized how much has changed in just five decades – within living memory – and how so many people fought for that progress. And there’s still so much to be done. It’s a lovely anecdote about their relationship and indicative of how Naz relies on her mother on and off the court. But I realized how much has changed in just five decades – within living memory – and how so many people fought for that progress. We photographed and interviewed 16 women in seven families scattered all over the country, which took a lot of coordinating and wrangling.