On a different note: After support group Saturday night several of us went for ice cream. As I was standing in the order line I felt a tap on the shoulder. Turning around I was facing a guy about me age, bald and 2 or 3 inches shorter then I. He said, "Excuse me but did you play basketball in high school?" (I'm six feet tall, 65 years old and three months post-op.) I answered, "No, I didn't." then added, obviously a bit defensively, "But they tried." He said right away, "I'm not surprised."
So I guess I pass well enough that I'm mistaken for a former girl's basketball player! I'll take it, though those that know me will tell you that in no way am I a jockette, and was not a jock in a previous life. But I love it just the same!
Susan Kay
As women's sports have gained more visibility, people realize that women DID play sports back in the day. That air of invisibility does not exist today as it did back then- especially when you get added coverage of the sad situations like with Pat (Summit) and the dementia diagnosis. Some of those women are not in the shape they were back then...I know I am not in the shape I was when I HAD an opportunity to play softball at the Division I level (I moved from the area and lacked the skills to walk-on at the D1 school where I had moved to). But, because of my continued involvement with that particular D1 school after the move, I get the question from time to time even though I am only 5'11" and am towered over by some of the current WBB recruits.
Because of my age, most parents of those recruits and players grasp the "academic scholarships paid better back then" since they usually ARE my age and remember how things were in the early to mid-80's.