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Feb 3, 2017 · In the 50s, players such as St. Joseph Hill's Regina Grumo and Anita Fogliano provided a solid supporting cast with Brenda Jordan and others like St. Peter's Carol Wilson, Pat Walsh, Notre Dame;s ...
Mar 8, 2016 · Please come with me as we step back in history — to Higbee High School and an era of girls basketball excellence like few others. The seasons were 1952-53 through 1955-56.
Mar 3, 2024 · The Single A tournament left high school gyms and joined the three other tiers at the LEC this week and had an engaging finale to open things Saturday, with the No. 2 Unity Christian Flames ...
- Steve Ewen
- Title IX of The Education Amendments Act of 1972
- 1976 Ann Meyer Received The First Woman’S College Basketball Scholarship
- 1892
- Zones of Play
- 1910-1914
- 1926-1929
- 1938
- 1966
- 1984
- 1991
Little did I know that just one year earlier, in 1972, Congress had enacted Title IX and gave me, and young women before me, more opportunities to play. Since Title IX, which bans sex discrimination and sexual harassment in federally subsidized educational programs, including athletics, opportunities in sports for girls have skyrocketed. In fact, i...
Though women played basketball for eight-four years, it wasn’t until 1976 that Ann Meyer received the first woman’s college basketball scholarship, leading the way for many other women like me. Because of Title IX, there are now more athletic scholarships and opportunities for women to participate in sports and learn from the game than ever before.
Women started playing basketball in 1892, a year after Dr. James Naismith invented it. Naismith created basketball to keep his students at Springfield College active during the cold winters. He attached a peach basket on the balcony at each end of the gymnasium and made a list of 13 rules. The game was a hit and spread across the country. Senda Ber...
The most notable difference was the use of three separate zones of play. The court was divided into three sections, with two players assigned to each section. It was a two-on-two game with two forwards against two guards and with a jump center and side center in the middle area to handle the ball between the two scoring zones. This was done to elim...
And rules continued to change, but not always for the better. In 1910 dribbling was outlawed for women, though by 1913, one knee-high dribble was allowed. Women continued to play basketball, even though in 1914, the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) took the position that women and girls should not play basketball in public. It was also the year that th...
In 1926 the AAU held the first national tournament for women’s basketball. They had six teams participating and used men’s rules. Still, with pressure from the Women’s Division of the National Amateur Athletic Federation, the tournament was cancelled for the next couple of years. In 1929 AAU re-started the national tournament for women but oddly en...
By 1938 women’s rules changed to use two zones instead of three. Two-zone basketball was a six-on-six game where each team has three offensive players and three defensive players on each half of the court.
Finally, in 1966, the year I was born, women were allowed unlimited dribbling again, and by 1970 the five-player full-court game was adopted. In 1971 the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) was formed, giving women the opportunity to compete in national championships and the next year, in 1972, Immaculata College won the firs...
In 1984 (the first year the USA women’s basketball team won Olympic gold), I received a scholarship to play basketball at Eastern Washington University. During my college career, we were a top team in our conference and played the University of Oregon in the 1987 NCAA Tournament. The first NCAA Women’s tournament was just six years earlier in 1981....
In 1991, the Women’s Basketball Association in 1993, and the American Basketball League in 1995. Finally, in 1996, the NBA established the WNBA with eight teams, which continues to this day. It now has twelve teams and allows women to play at a higher level. Much of this history is now preserved at the Women’s Basketball Hall of Famein Knoxville, T...
The origins of half court basketball for women began in the early 1900s, when women's basketball was first introduced as a way to provide exercise for women. At the time, many people believed that women were too delicate to participate in full court basketball, so the game was modified to half court. Half court basketball was played with a ...
Apr 15, 2024 · LANGLEY — There is a good case to make for Saturday’s menu of four B.C. senior girls basketball provincial championship finals as the stuff which constitutes the greatest single day in the history of the girls high school game in this province.The Double-A, Triple-A and Quad-A games were all decided by six points, each characterized ...
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Jan 11, 2023 · Since its 2016 inception, the OSBA has quickly become the main hub for Canada's best high schoolers to grow as players and improve their chances of forging a career in basketball and helping the ...
