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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 the '76...
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Born in Silver, South Carolina, Gibson was raised in Harlem, New York City, where she excelled in horsemanship but also competed in golf, basketball, and paddle tennis. Musician Buddy Walker noticed her playing table tennis and introduced her to tennis at the Harlem River Tennis Courts. With the assistance of a sponsor, she moved to Wilmington, North Carolina in 1946 for tennis training, and in 1947 at the age of 20, she won the first of ten straight...