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 introduces the great game of basketball. This time to Sophie Newcomb College in New Orleans. That same year, Baer published Basquette, the first set of basketball rules of women. At that point women’s basketball had become an recognized sport.
April 4, 1896, the first women’s intercollegiate basketball
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