Women’s basketball began the year after the game was invented. The history of women’s basketball success is a long one: collegiate and professional teams, intercollegiate competitions (and their critics) as well as the sad history of many failed attempts at professional leagues; women’s basketball at the Olympics.<\/p>\n
1892\u00a0<\/strong>first women’s basketball team organized by Senda Berenson at Smith College, adapting Naismith’s rules to emphasize cooperation, with three zones and six players on each team.<\/p>\n 1893\u00a0<\/strong>first women’s college basketball game played at Smith College; no men were admitted to the game (March 21).<\/p>\n 1894\u00a0<\/strong>Senda Berenson published article on women’s basketball and its benefits in the Physical Education<\/em> journal.<\/p>\n 1896\u00a0<\/strong>Stanford and the University of California at Berkeley played the first women’s intercollegiate game; Stanford won, 2-1, and men were excluded, with women guarding the windows and doors to exclude men.<\/p>\n 1970\u00a0<\/strong>five player full court game adopted for women’s basketball.<\/p>\n 1976\u00a0<\/strong>women’s basketball became an Olympic sport.<\/p>\n 1999\u00a0<\/strong>Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame opened.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Women’s basketball began the year after the game was invented. The history of women’s basketball success is a long one: collegiate and professional teams, intercollegiate competitions (and their critics) as well as the sad history of many failed attempts at professional leagues; women’s basketball at the Olympics. 1892\u00a0first women’s basketball team organized by Senda Berenson […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[749],"tags":[1041,194,196,195,173],"yoast_head":"\n