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Throughout the 1980′s and 1990′s, there were many attempts to organize professional women’s basketball teams and every attempt failed until the Women’s National Basketball Association, the WNBA, was formed in 1996 and starting playing in 1997.
During the 1980′s and the 1990′s, there were a few dominant NCAA, or woman’s college basketball teams, with many outstanding players, but the women stars that played on the U.S. Olympic Women’s Basketball team, 8-0 in the 1996 games, were the dominant stars of the 1990′s. Starting with Lisa Leslie, from the University of Southern California, Katrina McClain Johnson, from the University of Georgia, Teresa Edwards, from the Universiity of Georgia, Sheryl Swoopes, from Texas Tech, Dawn Staley, from the University of Virginia, Jennifer Azzi, from Stanford University and Rebecca Lobo, from the University of Connecticut.
Each one of these players was an outstanding basketball player in college, but what made each one special is the way they came together to win the gold medal, undefeated, in the 1996 Olympics. After the Olympics, this highly talented team of outstanding women became the nucleus of the highly successful WNBA, the only professional women’s basketball team to ever receive the support of the National Basketball Association.

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