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- Title
"If It Doesn't Play in Peoria…".
- Authors
BARTGES, ELLYN L.
- Abstract
The article describes the life and career of U.S. basketball player Charlotte Lewis of Peoria, Illinois. The author discusses Lewis's career as a basketball player at Illinois State University (ISU). The article examines Lewis's participation as a member of the 1975 U.S. Pan American Games women's basketball team and the first U.S. women's Olympic basketball team in 1976. Lewis's tenure as a player in the U.S. Women's Basketball League (WBL) is also described.
- Subjects
PEORIA (Ill.); ILLINOIS; LEWIS, Charlotte; WOMEN basketball players; AFRICAN American basketball players; WOMEN Olympic athletes; ILLINOIS State University
- Publication
Journal of Sport History, 2011, Vol 38, Issue 1, p37
- ISSN
0094-1700
- Publication type
Biography
- DOI
10.5406/jsporthistory.38.1.37