Lisa Leslie was one of the women who changed women’s basketball forever. She is a remarkable role model for girls everywhere wanting to play basketball. She started playing when she was in middle school. Lisa Leslie started playing in high school, scored big time in college, and dominated in the WNBA. Lisa was a very successful and talented player in high school. On her first day there, the coach wanted her to play on his team, even before seeing her play. She started on varsity all through her high school career. Even before she started at Morningside she received hundreds of letters of the best Division 1 schools in the country. She was a major contributor to the team very shortly after joining. She helped lead them to …show more content…
Lisa averages thirteen points and seven rebounds per game and had a total of 21 blocks over the course of the games. Even when Lisa was in high school she was breaking state records left and right. Lisa was named “Freshman of the Year” in the state of California. She almost got the record of scoring 105 points in one game, but when she got to 101 in the first half, the opponents refused to play. When she became a senior, she earned top player in the country. Lisa Leslie had a very successful high school career, but it was only the beginning of a long road ahead. Lisa Leslie attended USC from 1990-1994. She played a total of 120 games and averaged about 20 points per game. Her stats were incredible! She hit over 50% of her shots and was almost 70% from the free throw line. She set the Pac-10 record for scoring, rebounding, and blocked shots. She made over 2,414 points, 1,214 boards, and 321 blocked shots. She currently holds the USC single season record for blocked shots. While she played USC did very good with an 89-31 …show more content…
They were going to play the Charlotte Sting. The Sparks won the first game 75-66, Lisa scored twenty-four points, eight rebounds, and two blocked shots. In the second game they blew out Charlotte with an impressive score of 82-54. “It was the largest margin of victory in any WNBA finals series, and the win made the L.A. Sparks the first team, other than Houston, to capture a WNBA championship” (Leslie, 250). They finished the season with a 34-5 record, the best record in the
Lisa is the 2014 Board Vice-Chairman of the United Way of Metropolitan Nashville and serves on the board of St. Timothy's school in Maryland.
She led the team to a Conference championship and a State Championship. As a Senior she was the #1 player in the nation, averaged a triple double with 31 points, 14 rebounds and 10 assists. For the second consecutive year in history, she led the team to a state championship and led the nation in scoring. All four years in high school she was selected to be on the all-state team, all-region team, and all-conference team. During the summers of her High School years she would continue practicing and playing for an AAU team.
Her birth name is Pat Sue Head. She was born in June of 1952 in Clarksville, Tennessee. She was the second to youngest in the family of seven. Pat was 5 foot 9 in the third grade, talk about a giant! Pat was raised in a strict environment. Her father Richard Head expected the best of his kids. He expected them to be hard workers and to do work around the farm. Every morning Pat had to wake up at five in the morning to go work on the farm before school. Her father never told his kids that he loved them; he never hugged them her father believed in tough love. At Pats sixteenth birthday party she had to work on the farm and missed her entire party. Pats father supported her wanting to pursue her dream in playing basketball. Richard Head built a basketball court on top of the hayloft, and strung lights so Pat and her siblings could play at night. When Pat reached high school her father moved the whole family across the county line six miles to Henrietta, so that she could play basketball, because the school she’d been assigned to in Clarksville didn’t have a team for girls. Basketball in Pats day was slowly growing. Pat Summitt took her basketball talents to play college ball at UT Martian.
La Mirada offered organized ball on a year-round basis. Jennie joined her first league, L’il Miss T-Ball, after her fifth birthday. She was one of those kids who excelled at a number of sports, but her greatest love was always for baseball. Bev and Doug soon began channeling this passion almost exclusively into girls’ softball. Their daughter had good hand-eye coordination and excellent speed. But it was her arm that opened the most eyes. During winter vacation in Iowa one year, she celebrated her first snowfall by packing a snowball and literally heaving it out of sight.
Cousy, the freshman substitute who would become the most famous player in school history and a great professional, contributed two free throws.
When high school ended in 1986 Deanna attended Poparville Mississippi Community College on a basketball scholarship. After attending school there for a few years Deanna transferred to the University of Southern Mississippi. There she studied to complete her bachelor’s degree in exercise science.
It all began at local recreation programs where she took up table tennis, or ping pong. Althea had talent right from the beginning. She realized that she, a girl who’s life had been nothing but rough roads and abrupt turns, could be good at something. As she continued to gain interest as well as perfect her table tennis skills, Althea began to compete, and win several local tournaments. Because of these victories,Althea began to get noticed.
Diana is an excellent illustration of the many struggles of women to find a place for themselves in sports. On an individual level, defying societal stereotypes is extremely difficult. The buriers that the first person must overcome are often extreme. However once the first person breaks down those buriers, it becomes increasingly easier for others to follow in their footsteps. Diana's struggle demonstrates both how far women have come and how far women still have to go.
Shoni and Jude Schimmel are considered one of the most inspiring Native American athletes to play Division I basketball because they have sent a message to youth across the nation that if they can many obstacles, including discrimination for playing college basketball as Native Americans, then they can motivate their selves to face any obstacle that comes their way.
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This was 1978, to be a woman in 1978 making her presence known in a man's sport was brave and fearless. She discovered things about herself in that moment that would shape her into the successful woman she is
The sport basketball was created in 1981 and has grown to be one of the most popular sports to be played worldwide. To think that this life altering activity was thought of by only one man, Dr. James Naismith, a Physical Instructor at the YMCA Training school. Which was in Springfield, Massachusetts. Naismith was under the instructions of the head physical education board when he had the brilliant idea. He was given an enduring two weeks to come up with an indoor game that would give an “athletic distraction” for a jumpy class to participate in through the harsh winter approaching them. All he had was his own mind and a small indoor space to some how create a new game to be played. Naismith succeeded and his creation is now a big time sport played by millions all around the world.
Sports are so prevalent and popular these days that we often see them as symbolic of real-life issues and real-life drama. The football field can illustrate the battle between good and evil. The baseball pitcher, nearing retirement, can come back to give one last game and wow the crown one last time before gracefully surrendering the field. Isn't that what sports represent? The good guys (i.e. your baseball team) go to battle against the bad guys. It's not quite war, but it might as well be war without causalities. If they win, you celebrate. If they lose, you say, "Well, there's always next time." But if we can say that sports represent real life, do the players always represent real people? Is the quintessential soccer star also the quintessential man? He's controlled, fit, focused and aggressive. He wants to succeed and he wants to do his personal best. These are all admirable qualities.
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