Los Angeles, California: Billie Jean King Statue
Bronze statue of the tennis champion as she looked at her 1970s peak. Billie Jean King was a Cal State LA alumnus.
- Address:
- 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, CA
- Directions:
- On the campus of Cal State Los Angeles, just west of the Physical Education Building.
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Billie Jean King was a student at Cal State LA when she won her first Wimbledon title in 1966. In 2024 a statue was dedicated in the center of campus capturing a King at her competitive and stylistic pinnacle: wire frame eyeglasses, flowing hair, star-spangled tennis dress, wooden racket ready to backhand a Communist Bloc opponent back behind the Iron Curtain.
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