Exclusive: The Women’s Dream Team, the 1996 USA Women’s basketball team, dominated the Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta in 1996 going undefeated to win the gold medal.
The story of how they got there is now to be the subject of a feature doc for ESPN’s 30 for 30 strand.
The film will tell the story of the grueling 15-month road trip that led up to those ’96 Games. It’s the story of the 12 women who were tasked with auditioning the idea of women’s professional basketball in the United States. They absolutely held the very future of the sport in their hands.
After having suffered defeat at the ’92 games and the ’94 World Championship, USA Basketball undertook a revolutionary approach to training its Olympic team by structuring a long-term National Team program comprised of 52 games to turn them into a cohesive unit for 10-months ahead of Atlanta.
Kristen Lappas, who directed...
The story of how they got there is now to be the subject of a feature doc for ESPN’s 30 for 30 strand.
The film will tell the story of the grueling 15-month road trip that led up to those ’96 Games. It’s the story of the 12 women who were tasked with auditioning the idea of women’s professional basketball in the United States. They absolutely held the very future of the sport in their hands.
After having suffered defeat at the ’92 games and the ’94 World Championship, USA Basketball undertook a revolutionary approach to training its Olympic team by structuring a long-term National Team program comprised of 52 games to turn them into a cohesive unit for 10-months ahead of Atlanta.
Kristen Lappas, who directed...
- 5/4/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Last week, three-time NBA Champion and activist, Stephen Curry, joined Dr. Clarence B. Jones, an icon of the Black freedom movement in the U.S. and a leading voice for social justice and civil rights, in an intimate conversation around the racial crisis and urgency of social change, as part of the University of San Francisco’s Silk Speaker Series.
Titled “The Dream Marches On,” the conversation was moderated by Usf’s Vice President of Engagement and former Olympic gold medalist, Jennifer Azzi.
Stephen and Ayesha Curry’s foundation Eat. Learn. Play has donated $150,000 to local organizations fighting for racial justice including Oakland’s Black Organizing Project (Bop) and Usf’s Institute for Non-Violence and Social Justice. They have also generously issued a fundraising challenge and will be matching donations to encourage support for the Usf Institute for Nonviolence and Social Justice up to $75,000.
To donate to Usf’s Institute for Nonviolence Social Justice,...
Titled “The Dream Marches On,” the conversation was moderated by Usf’s Vice President of Engagement and former Olympic gold medalist, Jennifer Azzi.
Stephen and Ayesha Curry’s foundation Eat. Learn. Play has donated $150,000 to local organizations fighting for racial justice including Oakland’s Black Organizing Project (Bop) and Usf’s Institute for Non-Violence and Social Justice. They have also generously issued a fundraising challenge and will be matching donations to encourage support for the Usf Institute for Nonviolence and Social Justice up to $75,000.
To donate to Usf’s Institute for Nonviolence Social Justice,...
- 6/22/2020
- Look to the Stars
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