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  • Niles West High School (Skokie, Ill.) -- Basketball -- History -- 20th century.
     
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  • United States. Education Amendments of 1972. Title IX.
     
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  • Basketball for girls -- Illinois -- Skokie -- History -- 20th century.
     
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  • Sex discrimination in sports -- Illinois -- History -- 20th century.
     
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  • Women basketball players -- Illinois -- Biography.
     
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    State : a team, a triumph, a transformation / Melissa Isaacson.
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    Chicago : Midway, an Agate Imprint, 2019.
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  • Isaacson, Melissa.
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  • Niles West High School (Skokie, Ill.) -- Basketball -- History -- 20th century.
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  • United States. Education Amendments of 1972. Title IX.
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  • Basketball for girls -- Illinois -- Skokie -- History -- 20th century.
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  • Sex discrimination in sports -- Illinois -- History -- 20th century.
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  • Women basketball players -- Illinois -- Biography.
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    9781572842663 (hardcover) :
    1572842660 (hardcover) :
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    xvii, 301 pages ; 23 cm
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    First edition.
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    Our coach -- "Well, I guess I'll go try sports" -- Grovers and Wooders and Billy Schnurr -- Inappropriate cheering and the half-court shot -- "Son, son, get up!" -- New beginnings, new rituals -- Shirley's arm, Bridget's face, and mighty Hinsdale South -- Dark secrets -- Shirley's gremlin and those weird lumps -- Addition by subtraction -- Having it all -- The mighty Susies and other technicalities -- The ultimate slap -- Saturday Night Fever and a Champaign hangover -- Big whip -- Safe haven -- Earl's girls -- Dreidl, dreidl, dreidl -- Let it snow -- Perfect shmerfect -- Joy is... -- Why not us? -- April fools.
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    The unlikely story of a Chicago high school basketball team that became one of their state's first-ever girls' basketball champions after the passage of Title IX, which banned gender discrimination in school athletics.
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