Full-Court Press: Season Life Winning Basketball Team Women Who Made It Happpen - Hardcover

Kessler, Lauren

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525940359 ISBN 13: 9780525940357

Publisher: Dutton Adult, 1997

Synopsis

An award-winning author chronicles the inspiring story of the new coach and her underdog women's basketball team at the University of Oregon, who overcame administrative and technical obstacles to play a winning season.

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Review:

Whether you're a rabid sports fan or flip to another channel fast, read this terrific, exhilarating story of a year in the life of a women's basketball team. At the University of Oregon--as at most schools--women's athletics drew the short straw: spartan quarters, bad practice times, low-paid coaching staff, and little respect. In 1993, ambitious new head coach Jody Runge sought to change this. A competitive player who had benefited from 1970s laws demanding equity between male and female athletics, Runge whipped her lagging team toward winning while legally pressuring the school to ante up. Full Court Press is remarkably suspenseful and dramatic as Runge and her team set out to "jump on 'em and show 'em who lives here."

About the Author:

Lauren Kessler is the author of five works of narrative nonfiction, including the Washington Post bestseller Clever Girl and the Los Angeles Times bestseller The Happy Bottom Riding Club. Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times Magazine, O magazine, and The Nation. She directs the graduate program in literary nonfiction at the University of Oregon and lives in Eugene, Oregon.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dutton Adult
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0525940359
• ISBN 13: 9780525940357
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320