When Lisa was in middle school she already began towering over everybody at a height of a little over 6 feet. She had no intention of ever playing basketball, and it wasn’t until a classmate begged her to come out for the team, that she actually began playing. When she reached eighth grade she transferred to a school that had no women’s basketball team, so she joined the boy’s team. She not only did very well there, but it boosted her confidence and enhanced her performance. At the age of 14 she started getting hundreds of letters from colleges and universities all around the country, which was before she even entered high school. In 1986 she enrolled in Morningside High School and started every game on their girls basketball team. She holds a record for most…
The Amory High School Girls’ Basketball team is ready to leap into the 2016-17 season. Head coach, Paula Wax, has been working daily with the team on their shooting and defensive skills and believes her girls are beyond ready to out hustle their opponents this year. The season will kick off on their first game at ICC on October 29. After all the preseason conditioning and drills, the team is ready to bring home a win! Wax lives by the quote “Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard” and believes work ethic is very important. She instills a drive in her girls that can be outweighed by no other and is hoping the upcoming season proves just how hard the team has worked. Wax anticipates the girls will have a good chance of coming out…
It was a home game, the last game of region play, and the author talks about how tensions were running high between the two teams and the two crowds. It goes on to talk about how easily they defeated the rabbits by playing an unselfish game, and ended in victory defending the title from the west side for another year. The article talks about how amazing each of the senior players were this year, and how they were superstars on and off the court. “They led their team through the example of kindness and positive attitudes,” the article goes on to say. Over the past four years at Millard High School they have grown into tough competitors and beautiful young women, and states that there is no doubt they will succeed greatly in the…
Truer to the game by Randy Horick is a short story, possibly an excerpt from something larger, about how women’s basketball more clearly reflects the essence of the game. He claims that for a multitude of reasons that I will discuss later in this, that women’s collegiate basketball and the WNBA are representative of the true nature of the sport. More shots from behind the 3-point line, less fouls, plays that happen at a speed you can understand, and more behind the scenes stuff is what differentiates men and women’s. He cites pressure to win as his main argument for the cause of the differences in the two. This pressure to win creates an environment of hostility; athletes only play at the collegiate level for a few short years, not earning…
The PHS girls’ basketball team went to Ashland high school for a practice game. These practice games get the teams ready for the season to come. There were no points counted when the phoenix girls had competed against the Ashland Grizzlies. It was just a practice game to get these teams ready for the season. It took place on December 2nd.…
surgery on her ACL and meniscus. Her injury required surgery a few months later. This…
Exposure is an important piece of the puzzle in pushing for equality, not only in the world of basketball, but the world of sports as a whole. Although, the WNBA is steadily climbing as the Forbes list reported “the league welcomed its current president, Laurel J. Richie, known for her marketing acumen, and introduced Boost Mobile as a marquee marketing partner. In 2012, the draft moved to ESPN’s headquarters. In 2013, the WNBA launched a new brand identity, extended its television partnership with ESPN, the "3 To See" rookies gained mainstream attention, and season 17 ended with record growth.” (Glass) The WNBA may not be on the same financial level or branding level as the NBA currently, but the league is now equipped with franchise owners…
Soccer now ranking third in girls’ sports, has become one of the most popular sports played by adolescents in America. (Shane Monaghan). Organized woman sports teams started in the nineteen-seventies and ever since the growth of soccer for females has dramatically increased. Although the women’s teams were mostly national or college level, it spiked the interests of many teens. The total number of American high school soccer players has more than doubled since the nineties (David Litterer). Because of America national soccer teams ranking highly, and video games like FIFA, Soccer has become one of the fastest growing sports in America (Matthias Kunz). Now there are over three million players between ages five and…
I’ve never seen the film Love and Basketball, but it does sound like an inspirational film. I love that Monica still worked hard on reaching her goal as a basketball player. It’s nice that she found Quincy to share the love for basketball, but it’s too bad that their love for basketball is also the reason that they separated. It seems like the film shows how woman struggle from doing the same thing that is easily reached by men. Being stereotyped for being a woman in the sport, is her biggest struggle. I’m glad that she never gave up her dream, even if it was hard to reach. It looks like the film shows the woman struggle and determination to be someone they want to be in the man’s world. As woman we are expected to act certain way and I’m glad…
Throughout history, Canada has grown in so many ways from being more independent, showing our strength in the war, technological advances, gender and racial equality and many more. Canadian basketball is one of the many things that has evolved over the past few years thanks to former Toronto Raptor Vince Carter and retired NBA player Steve Nash.(Dan Stravinsky) We have already started to see a change in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for example the last two first round drafts have been Canadian (Andrew Wiggins and Anthony Bennett).(Dan) Also, some of the best National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) players right now are Canadian (Jamal Murray and Kyle Wiltjer).(Murray) Carter and Nash both contributed greatly to the…
Basketball isn’t just a sport, it’s a lifestyle. It requires you to push yourself again and again and not give up until the final buzzer sounds. Basketball requires a lot of teamwork and that team is like your family. Working together like a family helps push every player to do their best and make each other proud. In the poem “Slam Dunk & Hook” the author Yusef Komunyakaa uses metaphors, allusions, and imagery to illustrate basketball which offers escape and triumph for the players.…
The first game similar to basketball may have been played by the early people of ancient Mexico as early as 500’s. The Mayan people used the decapitated skulls of their enemies as the ball. They also made sacrifices if you did not win the game.…
Since its beginning over a century ago, basketball has evolved from a simple form of exercise with only a few rules to a highly competitive and complex national sport. Basketball was invented by James Naismith at a YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1891 (Fox 11-13). It began as an activity for the “‘ball-game’ void” months of winter (Hanson 65), and Naismith had five standards for the game. He wanted a ball that could be handled by a player’s hands; no one was to run with the ball, and anyone could grab the ball from another player as long as the ball was in play. There was to be no personal contact, and the goal was to be raised from the ground. He created the idea and standards for basketball by combining certain aspects of American…
It was her very first basketball game. Chase came with me to, my older brother, Nate’s basketball game. We arrived just as the Chelsea Hornets were getting ready. The warmth of the gym wrapped around our bodies, and the scent of teenage boy sweat filled our nostrils, making me almost retch. Chase sounded very excited when she asked me, “Where should we sit?” As any normal little girl would do, we both raced each other to the top of the blue high school bleachers and sat down in sync. My mom, little brother, Soren, and older sister, Lexi, followed behind the two of us while Nate ran out to the court to join his Chelsea Hornet basketball buddies. The game went on with the Hornets losing by seven points. Moms among the crowd were yelling about unjust fouls made towards their team.…
Year ago, National University snatched away the hopefully 20th victory of the FEU Men’s Basketball Team. Would they achieve the 20th crown this UAAP Season 78 because 6 stars of the team are on their last year of wearing their FEU jersey. How they plan to make their final push before leaving FEU/UAAP?…