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Ann Meyers is women's basketball--the first high school
player to make the women's national team, in 1974; a member
of the first women's U.S. Olympic basketball team, in '76;
the first female recipient of a full athletic scholarship
to UCLA, where she became the first four-time All-America
of either sex; and the first woman to sign with an NBA team
(the Indiana Pacers, with whom she played a few days in
'79). In 1978 she was the No. 1 draft pick in the Women's
Basketball League, which existed from '78 to '81. Not
surprisingly, Meyers, 42, is a member of the Basketball
Hall of Fame. She covers women's hoops for ESPN and NBC in
addition to raising the three children she had with her
late husband, Hall of Fame pitcher Don Drysdale.
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