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State - A Team, a Triumph, a Transformation (Hardcover)
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Set against a backdrop of social change during the 1970s, State is
a compelling first-person account of what it was like to live
through both traditional gender discrimination in sports and the
joy of the very first days of equality-or at least the closest that
one high school girls' basketball team ever came to it. In 1975,
freshman Melissa Isaacson-along with a group of other girls who'd
spent summers with their noses pressed against the fences of Little
League ball fields, unable to play-entered Niles West High School
in suburban Chicago with one goal: make a team, any team. For
Missy, that turned out to be the basketball team. Title IX had
passed just three years earlier, prohibiting gender discrimination
in education programs or activities, including athletics. As a
result, states like Illinois began implementing varsity
competition-and state tournaments-for girls' high school sports. At
the time, Missy and her teammates didn't really understand the
legislation. All they knew was they finally had opportunities-to
play, to learn, to sweat, to lose, to win-and an identity: they
were athletes. They were a team. And in 1979, they became state
champions. With the intimate insights of the girl who lived it, the
pacing of a born storyteller, and the painstaking reporting of a
veteran sports journalist, Isaacson chronicles one high school
team's journey to the state championship. In doing so, Isaacson
shows us how a group of "tomboys" found themselves and each other,
and how basketball rescued them from their collective frustrations
and troubled homes, and forever altered the course of their lives.
Educational resources for State can be found here.
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