Women in spots from begining to end

Women in sports was not always the norm. Now women are treated equally and they play sports and some of them are pretty good. The reason why men and women dont play in the same leauge is because men a just so much more physical and much stonger. Because of this women created their own leauge and implimented their own rules. So the expresion "you throw like a girl" or "you shoot like a girl isn't as effective as it used to be because you could be reffering to Lisa Leslie who is a 6 foot 5 inch foward for the Los Angelas sparks and is a three time WNBA MVP and a four time Olympic gold medalist. Although women had made their mark in the sports world it wasn't too long ago that seeing them play sports was like seeing a black sheep.

The first step to women becoming part of sports began way back in 779 bc when the first olympics were held and females were obviously excluded so they agued every four years to have they own games to honor Hera the greek godess who ruled over women and earth. Only one hundred years ago women were not allow to take part in physical education because many people thought that this would make them less feminine.

About 31,000 women were involved in college sports in 1972, that number has more than tripled. Spending on athletic scholarships for women has gone from less than $100,000 to almost $200 million. There was an average of 2.1 women's teams at colleges in 1972. That number is now at a record 7.7 per school. The fact that women sports are being incorperated in colleges around the world shows that women have come a long way since the first time they entered the sports world.
Probobly the biggest hump in womens sport was the creation of the WNBA. This leauge was founded in 1996 and started play in 1997. The WNBA is not the first womens basketball leauge but is the first to get full backing by the NBA commitee. It was created so that men and women did not play on the same cour together. Bothe sexes playing on the court would be unfair and dangerous beacuse could you image a wnba center goin up against shaq or dwight Howard, they would be out rebound, backed down, and thrown around like a rag doll. Also NBA centers are typically 7 feet tall and WNBA ceters are around 6 foot 4 inches to 6 foot 5 inches. That is the normal hieght of an NBA shooting guard. Could you imagine a 6 foot 3 170 pound small foward taking a charge from LeBron James or Dwight Howard. A merger just wouldn't work because all of the players from the WNBA would have to point gaurds or shooting gaurds and there are only 30 teams. About 5 woman would make the cut for an NBA team.

From the first Olympic games to the WNBA women have come a long way in the sports world.