Daily Archives: January 16, 2018

Gail Marquis: From basketball court to Wall Street

Former star at Queens (New York) parlays lessons learned in athletics to success at many levels Gail Marquis discovered a love for playing basketball while growing up in Queens, New York. Along the way, she also acquired skills that have propelled her to success as a college, Olympic and professional women’s basketball player, on Wall…

An Oral History Of The First U.S. Olympic Women’s Basketball Team

Forty years ago this summer, a team of 12 women laid the foundation for the future of women’s basketball in the United States, competing as part of Team USA in the first-ever Olympic women’s basketball tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. There was no WNBA at the time, nor any professional women’s league in the U.S.…