Leading Off
October 14, 2002
Body LanguageSports take, and make, all kinds of bodies, from tiny to towering, from buff to beefy. On this and the next two spreads are 72 of the 130 men and women—swimmers and shot-putters, jumpers and jockeys, powerlifters and point guards, runners and rhythmic gymnasts, a flyweight and a sumo-photographed by Howard Schatz for his book Athlete, published this month by HarperCollins.
Stacey Bowers
Triple Jump
5'6", 130 pounds
Deena Drossin
Long-Distance Running
5'4", 105 pounds
Jennifer Parilla
Trampoline
5'1", 120 pounds
Katie Smith
Basketball
5'11", 173 pounds
LeShundra Nathan
Heptathlon
5'11", 175 pounds
Tobey Gifford
Sport Aerobics
5'3", 118 pounds
Tabitha Yim
Gymnastics
4'8", 85 pounds
Inger Miller
Track (100 m, 200 m)
5'4", 120 pounds
Amy Acuff
High Jump
6'2", 145 pounds
Stacy Sykora
Volleyball
5'10", 135 pounds