Dr Margaret Downing
Margaret Downing was a pioneer in women’s sports, especially basketball, in Arkansas in the second half of the twentieth century.
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Lurlyne Greer Rogers
American basketball player in the 1940s and 1950s
Carolyn Moffatt
Carolyn Moffatt was a pioneering American women’s basketball coach in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
Helen Parker
Helen Faye Parker was a legendary high school basketball coach and athletic administrator in Ashdown, Arkansas.
Karen Aston
American women’s basketball coach Karen Aston first had a successful high school and college playing career. She began her coaching career at the high school level before moving to college, where she served first as assistant coach before becoming a college head coach in 2007.
All American Red Heads
A nationally known women’s basketball team, the All American Red Heads formed in 1936 in Cassville, Missouri, with Connie Mack Olson as its founder and coach.
Betty Watson
In under 50 years, Betty Watson helped change Australian women’s basketball from almost non-existent to the Australian team winning Olympic medals.
Margaret Lechowick
American basketball champion, child welfare advocate and lawyer
Senda Berenson
Considered the mother of women’s basketball, Senda Berenson adapted the rules for women and in 1984, posthumously, became the first woman inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.
Sue Bird
American basketball player