Inaugural ballers : the true story of the first US women's Olympic basketball team
(2022)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
TEEN/796.323809/MARANISS,A

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Teen TEEN/796.323809/MARANISS,A Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Viking, 2022
DESCRIPTION

344 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780593351246, 059335124X :, 059335124X, 9780593351246
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"From the New York Times bestselling author of Strong Inside comes the inspirational true story of the birth of women's Olympic basketball at the 1976 Summer Games and the ragtag team that put US women's basketball on the map"--

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"Twenty years before women's soccer became an Olympic sport and two decades before the formation of the WNBA, the '76 US women's basketball team laid the foundation for the incredible rise of women's sports in America at the youth, collegiate, Olympic, and professional levels. Though they were unknowns from small schools such as Delta State, the University of Tennessee at Martin and John F. Kennedy College of Wahoo, Nebraska, at the time of the '76 Olympics, the American team included a roster of players who would go on to become some of the most legendary figures in the history of basketball. From Pat Head, Nancy Lieberman, Ann Meyers, Lusia Harris, coach Billie Moore, and beyond-these women took on the world and proved everyone wrong." -- inside front jacket flap