The 1976 U.S. Olympic Women’s Basketball Team Forever Changed Sports

Coach Billie Moore sat her basketball team down before its 1976 silver medal match against Czechoslovakia at the Montreal Summer Games. The squad had endured a long and winding journey to get to this point, now on the precipice of history. Moore delivered an important and prescient message to her players: win this game and they would forever shift the trajectory of women’s sports in the United States. Forty-seven years later, that silver-medal-winning team is being recognized for doing just that, as the first women’s basketball team to represent the U.S. at the Olympics. Read More