The Edmonton Grads

For anyone who ever thought, “Girls, can’t play ball,” open your eyes. Not only can girls play ball, they kick butt at it. Girls try just as hard, and are as competitive as the guys who play basketball. The girls, in most cases, are rougher than the guys and they rely on more of a passing game, instead of the men’s “one-man-show”. It is about time, women get to show the world who is, and who has been, charging up the court.

Looking back in history, the first all-female, basket ball team was the Grads.

The Edmonton Commercial Graduates Basketball Club,

referred to simply as the Grads, were a women’s basketball

team founded and coached by John Percy Page, for the period

from 1915 to 1940. What was started as a high-school team

was later to become a sporting dynast

Not until, 1996, was there an professionally recognized ball club for women. This club started out in the States and still to this day, has not yet reached Canada. This organization, is called the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). Many of the girls playing on these teams, are too young to have grown up watching the Grads play. Although these WNBA players, have most likely heard of the Grads, while growing up, they still could not see opportunities for themselves to participate without the boys. A player in the WNBA, Kedra Holland-Corn, stated, “when she was young, [she] wasn’t aware of many women athletes, as she only saw men’s sports on television” (Levaas, L, 2000). This is why the WNBA has such a significant contribution to women’s sports.

This group of Canadian women, became pioneers and helped develop, popularize and giv

Some topics in this essay:
Percy Page, Kedra Holland-Corn, Grads’ Slogan, Library Canada, Association WNBA, Basketball Club, women’s basketball team, play ball”, , “girls can’t play, can’t play ball”, “girls can’t, women’s basketball, percy page, can’t play, basketball team, wnba players,