Go-to Girl: Digs, Dives, and a Golden Spike

One Golden Spike is the multi-faceted memoir of J.J. Gearhart, a woman who earns one of the first athletic scholarships for women to Stanford University. There, she plans to study pre-medicine so she can cure her mother's mysterious autoimmune illness. She is 100% a mama's girl.

Mama Jo's suffering fuels J.J.'s ambitions as she struggles to be seen as more than a "dumb jock" who took an admissions spot away from a "more deserving" intellectual. Balancing the demands of athletic competition w...