Serena named one of Time's "100 Women of the Year"

In honor of International Women's Day (March 8) and the coming 100th anniversary of U.S. women winning the right to vote, TIME magazine is recognizing "100 Women of the Year," one for every year since 1920.

And Serena Williams was named the Woman of the Year for 2003, the year she completed her first Serena Slam (four majors in a row) at the Australian Open. She was also given her own all-new TIME cover.

"Williams has inspired a new generation of tennis talent, young women of color who, like her, dared to take up what’s long been a lily-white sport," her blurb in *TIME* reads. "Williams has not only taken women’s tennis to new heights. She has secured her legacy in the generations that will follow her."

Other athletes recognized include Olympic gold medalist Babe Didrikson (1932) and "fastest woman in history" Florence Griffith Joyner (1988).