Ann Meyers

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Basketball player
Ann Meyers
Ann Meyers Drysdale by Gage Skidmore.jpg
Information about the player
Full name Ann Meyers Drysdale
birthday 26th March 1955 (age 65)
place of birth San Diego , California , United States
size 175 cm
WNBA Draft First female player in the WBL Draft, 1978 , New Jersey Gems
National team
United States

Ann Meyers Drysdale (born March 26, 1955 in San Diego ; born Ann Elizabeth Meyers ) is an American former basketball player and sports reporter. She was the first US national basketball player to join the national team while she was still in high school . In 1979 she was the only woman to sign a contract with an NBA team, the Indiana Pacers . Meyers is currently both managing director and president of the WNBA club Phoenix Mercury , as well as the vice-president of the men's team Phoenix Suns . After her career, Meyers became a basketball expert for match analysis for numerous television stations.

Life

Ann Meyers was born on March 26, 1955 to Patricia and Bob Meyers, the sixth of eleven children in San Diego. Her two year older brother, Dave Meyers , later also played basketball in the NBA. She attended Sonora High School in La Habra and was active in seven sports, including softball , badminton , field hockey , tennis and basketball. In 1974, Meyers was accepted into the national team as the first high school student. From 1976 to 1979 she played for the UCLA team , the UCLA Bruins . In 1978 she succeeded against Stephen F. Austin State University with 20 points, 14 rebounds , 10 assists and 10 steals, the first quadruple double in the history of Division I of college basketball .

Meyers won gold with the women's national team at the Pan American Games in 1975 . At the 1976 Summer Olympics , the team won the silver medal and at the 1979 World Basketball Championship they won gold again with their teammates.

In 1980 Meyer signed a contract with the NBA club Indiana Pacers for $ 50,000. After trial training sessions, however, it was no longer needed for the team. Instead, Meyers became a basketball analyst. From 1978 to 1980 Meyers played for the New Jersey Gems and was the first player to be signed for the professional basketball league WBL . Between 1980 and 1982 she won the Women's Superstars Championships. For the 2008 and 2012 Olympics , Meyers was a women's basketball analyst for NBC Sports . She was a sports analyst for ESPN , CBS and NBC for a total of 26 years .

On November 1, 1986, Meyers married the baseball player Don Drysdale and took his last name as their second. For the first time, spouses were represented in the Hall of Fame for their respective sport. Don Drysdale died on July 3, 1993 from a heart attack .

literature

  • David L. Porter (Ed.): Basketball: A Biographical Dictionary . Greenwood Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-313-30952-6 .
  • Janet Woolum: Outstanding women athletes: who they are and how they influenced sports in America , 2 Sub edition. Edition, Oryx Press, June 5, 1998, ISBN 978-1-57356-120-4 .

See also

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ At the time, college sports for women were organized by the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) rather than the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). In the NCAA Division I, no other player and only one player has so far achieved such an achievement (as of July 4, 2013) .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Mercury Name Ann Meyers Drysdale As General Manager Phoenix Mercury web site, September 12, 2006
  2. ^ Mercury's Drysdale adds title of president . (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 29, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.miamiherald.com
  3. ^ A Lifetime of Firsts. Ann Meyers Drysdale (May-June 2008) ( Memento from July 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ a b c d Porter p. 120
  5. ↑ Woolum p. 188
  6. ↑ Skyhawk Junior Makes NCAA History with Quadruple Double . (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 6, 2016 ; Retrieved July 29, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.utmsports.com
  7. ^ UCLA Women's basketball media guide
  8. ^ A b Karra Porter: Mad Seasons: The Story of the First Women's Professional Basketball League, 1978–1981 . University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln 2006, ISBN 0-8032-8789-5 (English).
  9. ↑ Ray Frager: Your NBC Olympics lineup (July 16, 2008) ( Memento from August 20, 2008 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Meyers, Ann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyers Drysdale, Ann (full name); Meyers, Ann Elizabeth (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player and sports reporter
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH San Diego