FIERCE
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FIERCE

My Fight For Nothing Less

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eBook - ePub

FIERCE

My Fight For Nothing Less

About this book

In 2022 The Washington Post called her the Jackie Robinson of collegiate women's basketball coaching. Now Marian E. Washington shares her compelling life story, tracing her humble roots in rural Pennsylvania to the unprecedented legacy she left for the advancement of women's athletics and African American women.

Washington became the first female African American head coach at a predominantly White institution at the Division I level when the University of Kansas hired her in 1973. A year later she was named KU's first women's athletics director. Over 31 years she coached Kansas women's basketball to 560 wins, 11 NCAA Tournament appearances and two Sweet Sixteens.

But her legacy is the battle she waged for equity inside the walls of her own institution and nationally, becoming a trailblazer for a host of successful Division I Black female coaches. In 1996 she became the first Black woman to coach on a U.S. Olympic women's basketball team staff, serving as an assistant coach on the USA's gold medal-winning team.

Washington was the first female President of the Black Coaches Association. She is enshrined in the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame and is a finalist on the Ballot for the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.

"FIERCE" is her story.

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Information

Publisher
Ascend Books
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9798986358468
Edition
0
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies

Table of contents

  1. CoverĀ 
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. ContentsĀ 
  5. Dedication
  6. Foreword
  7. Chapter I: Suite
  8. Chapter II: Bib Overalls and Hats
  9. Chapter III: Earthā€™s Angel
  10. Chapter IV: By My Side
  11. Chapter V: The Bus
  12. Chapter VI: Off to a Flying Start
  13. Chapter VII: Baby Girl
  14. Chapter VIII: Stiff Upper Back
  15. Chapter IX: A Collegiate First
  16. Chapter X: Olympic Dream
  17. Chapter XI: Final Shot
  18. Chapter XII: Land of Oz
  19. Chapter XIII: Turbulence
  20. Chapter XIV: Rock Chalk
  21. Chapter XV: Buried
  22. Chapter XVI: Sisterhood
  23. Chapter XVII: Gold
  24. Chapter XVIII: Parting Ways
  25. Chapter XIX: Me and Her
  26. Chapter XX: To Myself
  27. Afterword
  28. Appendix I: Thank you, Jayhawks
  29. Appendix II: Marian Washington By the Numbers
  30. Acknowledgments
  31. About the Authors