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She played professional basketball with the Houston Angels of the Women's Professional Basketball League (WBL) and was the first and only woman ever to be officially drafted by the National Basketball Association (NBA). For her achievements, Harris was inducted to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and Women's Basketball Hall of Fame ...
Meyers was a four-year athletic scholarship player for the UCLA Bruins women's basketball team (1974–1978), [6] the first woman to be so honored at any university. [4] In a game against Stephen F. Austin on February 18, 1978, she recorded the first quadruple-double in NCAA Division I basketball history, with 20 points, 14 rebounds, 10 assists ...
Lynette Woodard (born August 12, 1959) is an American basketball player and former head women's basketball coach at Winthrop University. Woodward played college basketball for the Kansas Jayhawks . She became the first female member of the Harlem Globetrotters and, at age 38, began playing as one of the oldest members in the newly formed ...
In 1996, she became the first and only female basketball player to be inducted into the American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame. [1] in 2013, she was the first women's basketball player to have her jersey (No. 21) retired by ASU. [2]
During her college career Moore won 150 games and only lost four, [30] amassing a total 3036 points (first Husky ever and fourth all-time in NCAA division I women's basketball), 1276 rebounds (second Husky ever), 310 steals (third Husky ever), 544 assists (sixth Husky ever) and 204 blocks (fourth Husky ever); she is the only women's basketball ...
The first public women's basketball game in the South is played at a men's only club, the Southern Athletic Club. [7] 1896. First intercollegiate contest between the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford was held on April 4, 1896. Stanford won, 2–1. [11] [12] [13] 1897. First recorded women's basketball game in Australia, played in ...
In 2001, she became the third Oregon State player to earn Pac-12 Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Year. [1] She was the first women's basketball player to be drafted by the WNBA when she was picked in the 2002 WNBA draft.
Georgeann Wells is an All-American basketball player, who was active at West Virginia University (WVU) from 1982 to 1986. [2] Among her other accomplishments, Wells is notable as the first American woman to register a dunk in an official NCAA intercollegiate basketball game on December 21, 1984.