WNBA

The WNBA is about to celebrate its tenth anniversary making it the greatest professional women’s sport league in the world. The WNBA started its process of becoming a professional league in April of 1996 when the NBA board of governors approved the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). Who better to be the president of the WNBA than a woman, so on August 7, 1996 Val Ackerman was appointed president of the WNBA. This is a great step in equality in women sports showing that women can be successful in a position of power. The first sixteen athletes assigned to teams in the WNBA were incredible athletes together they held 11 Olympic gold metals and 9 NCAA national championships. The first game in the history of the WNBA had an attendance of over fourteen thousand which is by no means great but today there have been over ten million attendees which is a great number of supporters. As the WNBA continues to grow so does its fan base and appreciation for the necessity of this monumental sport league as well. In a short ten years the WNBA has done incredible things to help women in sports, to show that there is possibility for women and that it doesn’t take a man to be successful. Also it shows the younger generations of males that women can and deserve the chance to be an owner, coach, player, to respect women, and to see them as someone who is greater or equal to themselves.

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