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Venus to the Hoop

- A Gold Medal Year in Women's Basketball
Af: Sara Corbett Engelsk Paperback

Venus to the Hoop

- A Gold Medal Year in Women's Basketball
Af: Sara Corbett Engelsk Paperback
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In the spring of 1995, twelve extraordinary basketball players were chosen to represent the United States in the year-long march to the 1996 Olympics. For Rebecca Lobo, Sheryl Swoopes, Lisa Leslie, and their teammates, winning the gold medal was only one of many goals. Around them swirled the dreams of the millions of young girls who played organized basketball, the hopes of the fans who sent the team an average of 125 pounds of fan mail each month, the multimillion-dollar bets of Nike, Champion, and other corporate sponsors, the promise of a new women''s professional league, and not least, the hopes of female athletes across the country to gain the respect accorded male athletes.

These women upon whom so much pressure rested included a runway model (who also happened to be one of the few women players able to dunk), a forward who barely survived a car accident that left her in coma, a collegiate sensation struggling to live up to her rep and her huge marketing contract from Reebok, a superstar known as "the female Michael Jordan," and a controversial, unrelenting coach. Nine of the women were black; three were white. Some were married, some single; some outspoken, some painfully shy. Some were rivals, some fast friends. How they came together, both on and off the court, is the subject of this wonderful celebration of the female athlete.
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In the spring of 1995, twelve extraordinary basketball players were chosen to represent the United States in the year-long march to the 1996 Olympics. For Rebecca Lobo, Sheryl Swoopes, Lisa Leslie, and their teammates, winning the gold medal was only one of many goals. Around them swirled the dreams of the millions of young girls who played organized basketball, the hopes of the fans who sent the team an average of 125 pounds of fan mail each month, the multimillion-dollar bets of Nike, Champion, and other corporate sponsors, the promise of a new women''s professional league, and not least, the hopes of female athletes across the country to gain the respect accorded male athletes.

These women upon whom so much pressure rested included a runway model (who also happened to be one of the few women players able to dunk), a forward who barely survived a car accident that left her in coma, a collegiate sensation struggling to live up to her rep and her huge marketing contract from Reebok, a superstar known as "the female Michael Jordan," and a controversial, unrelenting coach. Nine of the women were black; three were white. Some were married, some single; some outspoken, some painfully shy. Some were rivals, some fast friends. How they came together, both on and off the court, is the subject of this wonderful celebration of the female athlete.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 352
ISBN-13: 9780385493529
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0385493525
Kategori: Forside
Udg. Dato: 15 sep 1998
Længde: 28mm
Bredde: 203mm
Højde: 132mm
Forlag: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Oplagsdato: 15 sep 1998
Forfatter(e): Sara Corbett
Forfatter(e) Sara Corbett

Kategori Forside

ISBN-13 9780385493529

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 352

Udgave

Længde 28mm

Bredde 203mm

Højde 132mm

Udg. Dato 15 sep 1998

Oplagsdato 15 sep 1998

Forlag Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc

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