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[QUOTE="Cheriehoop, post: 864375, member: 127"]
Pretty low-key "glory days:rolleyes:"  back in the 70's, 80's for that highly respected sport (hmm), women's basketball. I did play on the same team that SU's first scholarship womens' player did after college, center Sheila Nash and later on SU's center Martha Mogish. Also played with/or against really good players like Vera Jones, Felisha Legette, Sue Ludwig, Christy Palumbo, Beth Mowins (yes the same one), Eileen Emmons & Kathy McInerny (Lemoyne Hall of Fame members), Eileen Smith Edsall (yes, his wife who played for SU's basketball team), Marva Cook, Teresa Quilty, Mary Austin on and on.

The huge rivalry in the late 70's - early 80's in city rec womens  A league basketball were the teams sponsored by the Orange Grove and Mrs O'Leary's, who were both owned by the same SU affilated owners Jimmy Lee, Mike Lee, the Hornsteins(?), Mike Bright (SU football player?)etc. We alternated championships for about 6 years (I played for Mrs O'Leary's). Lots of fun , some great basketball, crazy times after the games at those bars and very nice people. Fact most guys don't know: It was the men's NCAA when it took over the womens game in 1982 that changed the womens game by requiring use of the smaller "womens" basketball.  They did it supposedly to make the womens' game more attractive and more possible for women to dunk.(that is the most coveted basketball skill that guys want to see, I understand) It was a big adjustment for many of us - like shooting a soccer ball after years of using the mens ball (or throwing a baseball after using a softball) but we did it. That said - it was all a looooong time ago.
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