THE INAUGURAL BALLER Lusia Harris

What'sHerName

Dr. Katie Nelson and Olivia Meikle

Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.8 • 538 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

When Lusia Harris convinced her parents to let her try out for High School basketball, she never could've anticipated she'd end up scoring the first basket in Olympic Women’s Basketball history. Facing unprecedented hurdles at every step of her career, she broke records, made history, and changed women’s sports forever... and that’s just the beginning! Olivia interviews guest Andrew Maraniss, author of Inaugural Ballers: The True Story of the First Us Women's Olympic Basketball Team (a 2002 Book of the Year by Kirkus. Andrew Maraniss is a New York Times bestselling author of sports and social justice nonfiction for teens and adults. His other books include Strong Inside: Perry Wallace and the Collision of Race and Sports in the South (winner of the RFK Book Awards Special Recognition Prize and the Lillian Smith Book Award), Games of Deception (winner of the Sydney Taylor Honor Award), and Singled Out (named one of Esquire Magazine's "Top 100 Baseball Books Ever Written"). Andrew is director of special projects at the Vanderbilt University Athletic Department and lives in Nashville. Follow him on Twitter @trublu24. Music featured in this episode by Chris Haugen, Wayne Jones, King Canyon, Unicorn Heads, Kevin MacLeod, Tower of Light, and An Jone. Want to help us “make history”? Become a Patron or Donate here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi Katie. Hi Olivia. Hi, Olivia. It is July 19th, 1976. Ooh! And we are in Montreal, Canada.
0:23.3	The players are on the court for the very first game of the women's basketball tournament at the Olympics.
0:31.3	Oh!
0:32.3	The first women's basketball ever played at the Olympics.
0:36.8	Cool.
0:38.3	It's the U.S. versus Japan.
0:40.8	Ha!
0:42.0	The whistle blows.
0:44.4	Japan takes the ball.
0:46.3	Japanese player runs down the court.
0:48.3	She is about to score.
0:50.0	When she is fouled, hard, by one of the American players.
0:54.8	Ah, she is confused.
0:57.6	The Japanese team are looking at each other like,
0:59.7	what was that about?
1:03.2	The Americans are determined that if they are going to have to play this early morning game,
1:09.8	they are going to make the most of it.
1:12.5	And they're going to make some history.
1:15.8	By fouling people?
1:18.8	Yes.
1:19.8	The first woman to score a basket in the Olympics is going to be an American, dang it.
1:25.8	Oh.
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