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‘I MADE GUYS RESPECT ME AS A BALLER’

IT’S CRAZY TO THINK THAT we are celebrating 50 years of Title IX, and I am happy to say that I am a product of Title IX. I was born in 1971, a year before Title IX was signed into law but I still consider myself a Title IX baby. There are moments when I look back on my life and career and couldn’t imagine life as a female athlete without this law.

As a young girl from Brownfield, Texas, who started playing hoops at the age of 7, basketball was life! I knew at a very early age how much I loved the game and that there was something

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