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Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 15
Description
"At the height of the Great Depression, Sam Babb, the charismatic basketball coach of tiny Oklahoma Presbyterian College, began dreaming. Like so many others, he wanted a reason to have hope. Traveling from farm to farm, he recruited talented, hardworking young women and offered them a chance at a better life: a free college education if they would come play for his basketball team, the Cardinals. Despite their fears of leaving home and the sacrifices...
2) Love game
Author
Series
Love games (Maggie Wells) volume 1
Pub. Date
©2018
Description
WNBA All Star and Olympic gold medalist Kate Snyder captured her first national championship at Wolcott University in her undergrad days, and now she is the coaching legend of the #1 women's college basketball team. Then the college hires Danny McMillan, a coach trying to escape scandal, and pays him more than she earns. Snark and sparks fly between the two coaches until they finally see eye to eye, and then the sparks get even hotter. Now they need...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
Description
Presents a study of the girls' basketball team at Hardin High School on the Crow reservation in Montana, focusing on talented young player Sharon LaForge, and examines the social conditions that prevent her and other Native American athletes from reaching their potential on and off the court.
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 24
Description
"Women - not computers, not pop culture, not the end of the Cold War - are the driving force in the transformation of America. As Sally Helgesen, author of the classic The Female Advantage, shows in this compelling study of the lives of women in Naperville, Illinois, working women are the most important, dominant social group in contemporary America. Their life choices are radically changing how we work, how we live, how we worship, and how we consume."...
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Discusses the past and future of women's basketball and presents biographies of eight of the sport's most famous players: Cynthia Cooper, Teresa Edwards, Lisa Leslie, Rebecca Lobo, Nikki McCray, Dawn Staley, Kate Starbird, and Sheryl Swoopes
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Hoop Muses will take us through time - literally. We begin in the future, in 2072, on the night of the WNBA's 75th Anniversary, as New York Liberty phenom Jacklyn Jones is paid a visit by one of basketball's long-ago (wink, wink) greats. This unlikely duo then goes on a sweeping, roundtrip adventure through basketball history, starting at the very beginning: Springfield, 1891. As the years pass, they learn the roots of the game (think: the first-ever...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
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...
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