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creation
Senda Berenson was the women to invent women's baksetball. -
Berenson School
Berenson's freshmen played the sophomore class in the first women's collegiate game held on 22 of March in 1893. -
Popular in America
Form 1895 until 1970, the term "women's basketball" was also used to refer to netball, which evolved in parallel with modern women's basketball. It is mostly popular in America. -
1st college game
The first intercollegiate women's basketball game was played teams from Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, in 1896. -
Th Olympic Committee
By the 1970s the sport had attracted the noticed the international Olympic Committee, which added women's basketball as an official sport of the Olympic Games in the 1976. -
The League
The league was founded on April 24, 1996, as the women's counterpart to the National Basketball Association, and league play started in 1997. -
Commonwealth Games
Women's basketball made its first appearance was at the Commonwealth Games in 2006.
