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Sep 5, 2023 · Getting punched in the face, then, would be a brand-new professional concern. But Hanna rolls with Katz’s question. “We’ve had pressure our whole lives, so we'll definitely adjust,” she ...
- A Film Is Born
- A Glorious Trail
- ‘We’re Number One!’
- Trophies of A Different Sort
- Rush to The Rescue
On October 21, in a red-carpet premiere, the Cinderella story of the 1972 Immaculata College basketball team’s season-in-the-sun opened in movie theatres across the nation to coincide with the 40th anniversary of women’s basketball’s first championship season. The Mighty Macs, the film, directed by Tim Chambers and starring Carla Gugino, David Bore...
The Mighty Macs story begins in 1970 when Cathy Rush was hired as the Immaculata head women’s basketball coach at a salary of $450 a year. She took the job, knowing there was no gym to play in, no real fan base, hardly any money to support the program and barely enough players to fill out the roster. Despite the obstacles, Rush, a woman way ahead o...
In that Camelot-like 1972 championship season, Immaculata’s only loss came in the regional final of the qualifying portion of the national tournament, a 70-38 whupping by its crosstown rival and the team it would eventually meet in the national championship, West Chester University. Returning to campus after the West Chester drubbing, the team was ...
At the awards banquet celebrating the national title, Sister Mary of Lourdes, then-president of Immaculata, presented the players not with rings but with rosary beads plain brown wooden rosary beads. Sister Mary told them, “The rosaries will serve you better than any ring. “ So they would. Those rosaries would forever be a symbol of the mystical an...
Cathy Rush had it all figured out: “My life plan was to get an education degree, teach for a couple of years, get married, have a family and never work again. “ She got the degree, taught for two years and got married. Everything was running according to plan. But then at the age of 23, she got the itch to coach. Immaculata hired her in 1970. She c...
Jul 11, 2021 · But they are ushering in a new era of college sports. The twin sisters, stars on Fresno State’s women’s basketball team, are arguably the leading faces of the Name, Image and Likeness (NIL ...
Mar 23, 2024 · Meet Kayleigh and Kaylynne Truong, the Asian American twin sisters leading the Gonzaga women's basketball team into the NCAA Tournament.
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Aug 26, 2015 · Dr. Ken premieres Oct. 2 at 8:30 p.m. on ABC. Ready the OR, stat! In an inspired casting move, Margaret Cho is scrubbing in for a guest star role as Ken Jeong’s sister on ABC’s new comedy Dr ...
Jul 11, 2021 · Twin sisters Hanna and Haley Cavinder, stars on Fresno State's women's basketball team, became official business partners this month after the National Collegiate Athletic Association, reversing ...
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Jan 20, 2019 · Brylee Glenn announced on her personal Twitter that she and her sister Jaelyn, who are Class of 2021 guards, committed to K-State. The twins attend The Barstow School in Kansas City, Missouri.
