Pets provide more than just company; they often become unofficial team members. Athletes have long been known to be fiercely competitive, always looking for an edge. With a little motivation from their furry (or not furry) sidekicks, we watch these champions accomplish amazing feats.
Athletes
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Alex Morgan Pets
Alex Morgan is an American professional soccer player for San Diego Wave FC of the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL), the highest division of women’s professional soccer in the United States, and the United States women’s national soccer team. Born in San Dimas, California, Morgan began playing soccer at a young age and quickly showed a talent for the sport. She went on to play for the University of California, where she set numerous records and won a number of awards.
Brianna Decker Pets
Brianna Decker is an American women’s ice hockey player who plays for the Calgary section of the PWHPA and the United States women’s national ice hockey team. She was awarded the 2012 Patty Kazmaier Award while playing for the University of Wisconsin, recognizing the best female ice hockey player in NCAA Division I play.
Tyron Woodley Pets
Tyron Woodley is an American professional mixed martial artist and broadcast analyst. He is a former UFC Welterweight Champion and went on to defend his title four times.
Amanda Serrano Pets
Amanda Serrano is a Puerto Rican professional boxer, mixed martial artist and professional wrestler. As a boxer, she is the unified featherweight world champion, having held the WBO title since 2019; the WBC title since February 2021; and the IBO title since March 2021. She is the only female, and Puerto Rican, to win world titles in more than four weight classes, and holds the Guinness World Record for the most boxing world championships won in different weight-classes by a female, having held 9 major world titles across seven different weight classes.
Cris Cyborg Pets
Cristiane Justino Venâncio, known professionally by her ring name Cris Cyborg (and formerly by her married name Cristiane Santos), is a Brazilian–American mixed martial artist who as of January 2021 competes in Bellator MMA, where she is the current Bellator Women’s Featherweight Champion, having held the title since January 2020. She is also a former UFC, Strikeforce and Invicta FC World Featherweight Champion. She is the only MMA fighter in history, male or female, to become a Grand Slam Champion, holding world championships across four major mixed martial arts promotions.
Amanda Nunes Pets
Amanda Nunes is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist. She competes in the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where she is the current UFC Women’s Featherweight Champion and a former UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion. Widely regarded as the greatest female mixed martial artist of all time,she is the first woman to become a two-division UFC champion, and the third fighter to hold UFC titles in two weight classes simultaneously, after Conor McGregor and Daniel Cormier.
Jimmy Garoppolo Pets
Jimmy Garoppolo, nicknamed Jimmy G, is an American football quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Eastern Illinois, setting the school records for career passing yards and touchdowns and winning the Walter Payton Award as a senior.
Michael Vick Pets
Michael Vick is a former American football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons. Regarded as having transformed the quarterback position with his rushing abilities, he was the first NFL quarterback to rush for 1,000 yards in a season and holds the quarterback rushing yards record at 6,109. He played college football at Virginia Tech, where he received first-team All-American honors, and was selected first overall by the Atlanta Falcons in the 2001 NFL Draft.
Simona Halep Pets
Simona Halep is a Romanian professional tennis player. She has been ranked world No. 1 in singles twice between 2017 and 2019, for a total of 64 weeks, which ranks eleventh in the history of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) rankings. Halep was the year-end No. 1 in 2017 and 2018.
Holly Holm Pets
Holly Holm is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. She is the former UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion, and a former professional boxer and kickboxer. She was a multiple-time world champion in boxing, defending her titles 18 times in three weight classes, and a two-time Ring magazine fighter of the year (2005, 2006).