Overview
In 1975, freshman Melissa Isaacsonāalong with the other girls whoād spent summers with their noses pressed against the fences of Little League ball fields, unable to playāentered Niles West High School in suburban Chicago with one goal: make a team, any team. For āMissy,ā that team turned out to be basketball.
Title IX had passed just three years earlier, prohibiting gender discrimination in education programs or activities, including athletics. As a result, states like Illinois began implementing varsity competitionāand state tournamentsāfor girlsā high school sports.
At the time, Missy and her teammates didnāt really understand the legislation. All they knew was they finally had opportunitiesāto play, to learn, to sweat, to lose, to wināand an identity: They were athletes. They were a team.
And in 1979, they became state champions.
With the intimate insights of the girl who lived it, the pacing of a born storyteller, and the painstaking reporting of a veteran sports journalist, Isaacson chronicles one high school teamās journey to the state championship. In doing so, Isaacson shows us how a group of ātomboyā misfits found themselves and each other, and how basketball rescued them from their collective frustrations and troubled homes, and forever altered the course of their lives. Supplemental educator materials are available from the publisher.
This book title, State, ISBN: 9781572842908, by Melissa Isaacson, published by Agate Publishing (September 8, 2020) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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