the Wnba She was present for a long time so that she had her legends. Players like Maya Moore, Diana Turasi, Kandis Parker, the list lengthens and prolonged. Personally, I am only an age enough to see Cabbi Bondxter plays at the Broadcasting Center in Jersey for the middle school trip.
However, whenever we talked about the myths that have a chance to play, we must also admit that there are always excellent players in women’s basketball, many of whom came unfortunately from very early to play in WNBA.
The name from that group that comes to mind for everyone is Sherrill Miller. Rigi Miller’s older sister was absolutely dominant in high school, as she led her team to a confusing record of 132-4 and set the record for most points in one game with 105 against River Credit Norte Vista. If you play every minute, it will be 2.625 points per minute. Do not. I sat for the past two minutes. These 2.76 points per minute. at least. This is an unimaginable number.
Unfortunately for Miller, she was almost an early 10 years for WNBA, where she finished her university career in 1986. While she had a profession on the bench as a coach and on the call as an anchor, it seemed unborn brutally that she had never had this opportunity.
Today, however, it is an important memory of the basketball legend of different women. The person who came early, often forgets.
On today’s date on June 10, along the way in 1977, Jazz New Orleans forced Lucia Harris Stewart. (And she was still) the only woman who formally formulated to the American Professional League.
Harris-Stewart grew up in the small city of Mississippi, where he was the tenth of 11 children from a pair of participants. Although the family did not have much, she had a basketball collar, one made of it Screenwood, which has become the central point in their neighborhood However. The entire city children will be repeated from the Harris family to play together. Lucia was obsessed with the game, and it often sneaked into the living room to watch Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell.
As she had old age, she also slept as a player. In the end, I reached 6’3 in high school, was undoubtedly the best player in the state – and perhaps the country.
Harris was good enough to be given the opportunity to walk to the men’s team in Alcorn, but then she got an indescribable proposal: Delta State University, in Cleveland, Mississippi, will completely restart the women’s basketball team in order to present a place for her and other women to play.
Near his own, with her skill only and the belief of sports director Marvin Hemfelle and coach Margaret Wadi, Lucia brought the women’s basketball to the state of Delta.
After leading the team to three consecutive national championships and scored 109-6, Harris set a new precedent for this sport. In 1975, her presence in the championship was sufficient to draw a recently televised audience. Just one year later, the MADISON Square Garden, which had not been hosted by a women’s game before.
On the night of the 1977 American Professional League, Harris will become the second woman who was ever formulated to the American Professional League behind Dennis Long, who was taken by San Francisco and Uriors at the time. However, the American Professional League did not step at this time, as was the case with a long time, and confirmed that they would not be overlooked.
Lusia Harris-Stewart will get the opportunity to play, if you choose it.
Instead, Harris will play in WBL, the women’s basketball league, fits two seasons there before folding the league.
Years later, in 1992, Lucia will become the first black woman to be recruited in the Naismith Celebrity Hall. In 2003, Wnba All-Star game returned to Mississippi. Harris was not able to attend for unknown reasons.
Harris lived long enough to see a short documentary about her life, sponsored by the American Professional League legends, Shakil O’Neill and Steve Curry. Basketball queenand As announced by the film, it was gone shortly after 2022.
It is a reminder that, it is somewhat paradoxes, he must forget the corridors because of their same nature. Names throughout history echo this unfortunate fact. From Harlem RNS to Charles “Tarzan” Cooper and Bob Douglass, the nature of the stories like their stories must be eliminated. It was RNS The first professional basketball team is the black players player in the list. Charles Cooper was the face of this team, and Douglas was the director and the poker. However, by paving the way for others, they also allow their successors to demand and break them.
The world may be a completely different place if Harris may suit jazz music, or even if it had made the Alcorn team, but this was never her dream. By the time when she left the college, her goal was to start a family with her high school girlfriend. Any basketball played after this point was just an additional credit.
However, although she chose to say goodbye to the sport she loved at the age of less than 25 years, she did everything in her power as a woman’s basketball.
More importantly, it has set a precedent.
If WNBA is only exist because women like Sherrill Miller have proven their quality over and over again, and if Miller is able to play only because of the total basketball environment for women who sponsored the greatness of Lucia Haria Stewart, we can thank Harris for a lot of bone in women’s basketball today.
The truth is, 48 years ago, at Madison Square Garden, women’s basketball took a big step, no one can see coming and no one can expect its results.
Harris enters the college preceding the ninth title in only a few months. Today, women’s sports are an important part of any athletics program. The way we have reached what we are, where the WNBA finals can average average 1.6 million viewers for each gameIt is one scattered with forgotten myths.
Today, we remember Lusia Harris-Stewart, if only because without it, there may be WNBA-and like this that exists to cover women’s sport-.
