How did it all start?
Founded in 1981, the mission of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association
is to promote women's basketball by unifying coaches at all levels to
develop a reputable identity for the sport of women's basketball and
to foster and promote the development of the game in all of its aspects
as a sport for women and girls.
The WBCA would never have been a reality if a group of women's coaches
had not met at the Olympic Festival in Syracuse, N.Y. in 1981 to discuss
the formation of a coaches association. There were some well-recognized
names at that meeting: Jill Hutchison, formerly of Illinois State University, 1992 Olympic coach Pat Summitt
of Tennessee, 1988 Olympic coach Kay Yow of North Carolina State,
C. Vivian Stringer of Cheyney State (now of Rutgers), and Colleen
Matsuhara (now with the WNBA Los Angeles Sparks), among others.
The coaches gathered and with their concerns about the lack of an
association to meet the needs of women's basketball coaches...
Thus was born the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA).
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