The sport has come a long way since Meyer became the first American woman to receive a four-year athletic scholarship and was a four-time All-American at UCLA
Ann Meyers Drysdale prepares before a broadcast of a Phoenix Mercury basketball game Friday, June 3, 2022, in Phoenix. The best way to learn how far women’s college basketball has come is to talk to someone who was there in its early days.
Her brother, Dave, was playing for the men’s team and for John Wooden, whom Ann still affectionately refers to as “Papa.” Kenny Washington, who had been a member of Wooden’s first NCAA championship teams in 1964 and ’65, had just agreed to become UCLA’s women’s coach in 1975-76. Former UCLA women’s basketball star Ann Meyers holds up a jersey after signing a $50,000 contract with the Indiana Pacers on Sept. 5, 1979.
And there are so many stories and so many personalities, from Clark and Reese to Connecticut’s Paige Bueckers, Stanford’s Cameron Brink, USC’s JuJu Watkins, and …
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