“The stars lined up”: Reflecting on Wisconsin’s first high school girls basketball championship

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Prior to 1972 girls didn’t always have the opportunity to play sports at school. But the passage of Title IX changed that. It paved the way for Manitowoc’s Roncalli High School girls basketball team to become the sport’s first state champions in 1975. Two former teammates talked with one another about that experience as part

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