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Wednesday, March 23, 1994 Story of S From staff reports VanD< In the "Frontline" broadcast "In the basketbi Game," which will air at 9 p.m. Tues- eluding day on PBS, producer Becky Smith ans and goes behind the scenes of the Stan- players ford University women's basketball scheme, team to tell the story of the team, its I Jennifi coach and the season it set out to win foundati the biggest dream in college sports: a guard, Je | national championship. three-po - "When we began filming the Stan- "JenniJ ford women's basketball team's '89- said, "a '90 season, there was a feeling this Jennifer team was special, but certainly no they'd w guarantee they could pull it off," she grad Smith said. Katy S - "Their gritty, dramatic journey to chance the championship became, in the strong-wi end, an amazing fairy tale. More im- her from portantly, it also came to symbolize forward, the potential of all women athletes Sonja 1 when given an opportunity to get in ning on the game." cruited a Smith's six-month record of the "Anyo 9 "miracle season" captures the team's and kno spirit and determination, details coach VanDerv* Tara VanDerveer's strategy and tenac- Trisha ity and chronicles the grueling twists center wi and turns on the road to the title. ble knee mL _ t % i . i. _ r. _ r ? t ine story Denina tne dtaniora season, i women's achievement began even be- have a sh fore VanDerveer arrived. Andy Geiger, Val Wh athletic director at Stanford in the Derveer'j 1980s, was one of the first directors "Val hi to aim for across-the-board athletic ex- body: 6-a cellence, including women. has an el< "I love women's athletics like I love To con men's," he said. "I don't see a differ- coach ne< ence." er to cor I Geiger convinced VanDerveer, the play, winning coach of Ohio State's "In the women's basketball team, to come to sonal sto Stanford to take over a team whose cruits: he previous two-season record had been ball for th 14 wins, 42 losses. they conf VanDerveer wanted not only to win female in but to put women's basketball on the "Basket map. Her strategy was to create an ed liking athletic, entertaining game: playing VanDervi fast break, foil court, slick passing bas- trating n ketball with long range, three-point boys had. shooting. In mosi For this plan, she needed a high-oc- differenc< tane team. And this was a challenge at "My pa \ a brainy university like Stanford, you to di which honored the scholar-athlete "They we ideal. had two 1 "In the Game" details how Van- letic, and Derveer and her two assistant coach- As the es embarked on cross-country re- Game" ch cruiting. practices "She brought the most aggressive of the co; recruiting style and energy I'd ever condition seen put on by any coach," Geiger showdo\ ^said. Washing > ^11 RADICAL, m I HThe 6amccoi tanforcl champi irveer assembled not only a trounced by 40 points earlier in the ill team of overachievers, in- season; and VanDerveer's hard-driving two high school valedictori- push to meld her superstar recruits, four straight-A students, but "She is very concerned with our who would fit her grand team playing as a team and one person spoiling that," Henning said. "She sr Azzi, the first recruit and a wouldn't tolerate it...People are exon for the team. An athletic pendable " nnifer became one of the top FinaHy tracking the climactic n'nf chnnfprc in fnp rnnnfrv "VVT ^ games, "In the Game" shows the spir- T mm fer was like me, VanDerveer -I .1 . c _ , . . mm risk taker." The coach told "^sumutaofateamphtymgm.the JM that if she came to Stanford, <te of final exam* conttnuaUy shad- U in the championship before owed by mjunes and dnven by an unuate(j relenting coach. a teding. VanDerveer took a "You must nt this 8ame so bad* EJI on this athletic, moody, lY" VanDerveer told the players inside Mg illed, 6-footer and developed the locker room during the final a small center into a power game. "They're not willing to work as WT hard you will for it." 1 Jfl Penning. A star student plan- Stanford's championship win is an s^jj law school, Sonja was re- extraordinary emotional one, not onyear after Jennifer and Katy. ly for the team, but because just two | i ne could watch Sonja play days earlier the University of Okla- |p^ w she was a great player," homa announced it was abolishing its ser said. women's basketball program, at a Stevens. A powerful 6-foot-3 time when less than 10 percent of the ith a beautiful shot but terri- university's sports budget was going s, Trisha almost sat out the to women>s sp0rts. >ut the team needed her to "jt feeis a majQr slap in the face .ot at the tit e. and a major step backward," Vanuting, the final piece in Van- ~ .. . . c 5'. v Derveer said dunng a press confer* PflfP is what I would call an NBA ' , !, strong, quick ...She really ., Forhera"d oiher women athletes, ectrifying presence." lts 1 remtnder that even though Tide tpete with the top teams, the Ix- a 21-year-old federal law, bans eds this aggressive rebound- gender discrimination in federally nplement Trisha's finesse funded schools, women's athletics still have second-class status at the major- 2 : Game" highlights the per- ity of schools. ry of the coach and her re- According to the 1992 NCAA Gen- Ji >w they came to play basket- der-Equity Study, 70 percent of ath- Ijii le love of the game and how letic scholarships funds, 77 percent of ironted discrimination being operating budgets and 83 percent of a nontraditional sport. recruiting money goes to men's proball is something I just start- grams. in about the fourth grade," in an epilogue, "In the Game" tells :er said. "It was really frus- what has happened to the coach and ot having the chance that p|ayers sjnce their championship sea..We had no coaching." son t cases, parents made all the ?The s(ory of this Kam ? a grcat j twr ? American story, showing how hard rents never said, We want . . ,. .. ' , , . , a this or that," Azzi said. 7?*- dedication to a shared goal and re always supportive. They fa'th ?> oneself can lead to great ittle girls that were very ath- achievements, a theme that tranI that didn't bother them." scends SP005 " "Fromline" senior proseason progresses, "In the ducer Martin Smith said. It is also a iarts the struggles: grueling f*fm tba* P?ses important questions and workouts that are part aoout tne oDstacies tacing women s I ich's goal to have the best- teams which continue to fight for suped team in the country; the port and promotion.'1 Jennifi vn with the University of "In the Game" is produced by wi^ *** ton, a team Stanford had Becky Smith. and th< . 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