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
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