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Between 1972 and 1974, the Mighty Macs of Immaculata College―a small Catholic women's school outside Philadelphia―made history by winning the first three women's national college basketball championships ever played. A true Cinderella team, this unlikely fifteenth-seeded squad triumphed against enormous odds and four powerhouse state teams to secure the championship title and capture the imaginations of fans and sportswriters across the country. But while they were making a significant contribution...
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This is the remarkable story of the first stars of women's basketball. In the early 1970s, few women participated in organized athletics, but in Catholic Philadelphia, women's basketball was already a well-established, thirty-year tradition. In this vivid account of Immaculata basketball, Julie Byrne explores the unusual lives of these young women, the rare opportunities and pleasures they were allowed, their religious culture, and the broader ideas of womanhood that...
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Julie Byrne is an assistant professor of religion at Duke University. She lives in Durham, North Carolina.
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- PublisherColumbia University Press
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0231127480
- ISBN 13 9780231127486
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages312
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