We all know about the WNBA and all it’s basketball superstars, but do we really know how it all started. You may not believe it, but the formation of WNBA started more than a century ago. It all began in the year 1892, when gymnastics instructor, Senda Berebson Abbott, adapted James Naismith’s basketball rules for woman and then introduced the game to her students at Smith College. Three more years later, yet another educator …showed first 75 words of 639 total…

…showed last 75 words of 639 total…bottom and a pull chain, to the great basketball stars of today like, Sheryl Swoopes and Cynthia Cooper; from half court three on three games, to a gold medal in the 1996 Summer Olympics; through out the years, women’s basketball has come a long way, and I know it will keep on going. I don’t know, maybe 10 years from now, you’ll see me on the court, helping to keep women’s basketball alive.