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You Let Some Girl Beat You? by Ann Meyers Drysdale & Joni Ravenna
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You Let Some Girl Beat You?

The Story of Ann Meyers Drysdale

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Narrator Pam Ward
Length 8 hours 37 minutes
Language English
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Ann Meyers Drysdale is one of the greatest stars in the history of basketball. But her rise wasn't without controversy. Her 1979 NBA bid to play with the Indiana Pacers brought a barrage of criticism. But Ann simply wanted to play among the best. She had always competed with the guys, and she never let anyone keep her down.

A female first in many categories, Ann Meyers Drysdale was the first woman ever signed to a four-year athletic scholarship to UCLA, where she remains the only four-time Bruin basketball All American, male or female. Ann was also the only woman ever asked to compete in ABC Sports' Superstars, pitting her against elite athletes like Mark Spitz, Joe Frazier, O. J. Simpson, and Mark Gastineau. In You Let Some Girl Beat You? Ann shares with us her inspirational story for the first time.

Ann Meyers Drysdale is regarded as one of the greatest stars in the history of basketball. Throughout her career, she has received many honors. A member of six Halls of Fame, including the International Women's Sports Hall of Fame and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Ann is an Olympic silver medalist, a World Championship gold medalist, and a two-time Pan American Games medalist. A female first in many categories, Ann was the first woman ever signed to a four-year athletic scholarship to UCLA, where she led the women's basketball team to their only National Championship in 1978. To this day, she is the only four-time Bruin basketball All American, male or female. Named by Time magazine as one of the "Top 10 Female Sports Pioneers of All Time" in 2008, Ann is the only woman to sign a contract with an NBA team (the Indiana Pacers in 1979) and the only woman to sign a no-cut contract with the NBA. She was also the first woman ever to do color commentary of an NBA game, as well as the first woman to announce an NBA game on network television. Today Ann continues to break through barriers. She is the only female vice president in the NBA (she is VP of the Phoenix Suns), and she is also the general manager of the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury, which has won two WNBA Championships since she took over four years ago. Ann has worked extensively as a broadcaster as well, covering a wide variety of sports for major television networks, including the 2000, 2004, and 2008 Olympics for NBC.

Joni Ravenna is the editor of the OC Woman section of Parenting magazine. She also writes for Taste for Life magazine, and her work has been published in the LA Times, Esquire, and Coast magazine, among others. Ravenna is also a television writer/producer and a published, award-winning playwright. She wrote the 2007 PBS Pledge Specials "The Donovan Concert-Live at the Kodak," and 2009's "Latin Music Legends with Trini Lopez." Other credits include "The Aging of America with Lee Meriwether," "Judy Garland-Duets," "My Hong Kong with Nancy Kwan," "Earth Trek" and "Ticket to Adventure" for PBS, Outdoor Life, The Travel Channel, and Fox Sports respectively. Her series "Great Sports Vacations" earned an ACE nomination in 1993 and was at one time the highest rated show on the Travel Channel. Over the years Ravenna has interviewed for print and/or television many film stars, authors and sports legends, including Sean Connery, Deepak Chopra, Brad Pitt, Johnny Bench, Sidney Sheldon, Jenny McCarthy, Sissy Spacek, Marianne Williamson, Jim Brown, Willie McCovey, Willie Gault, and Elgin Baylor.

Pam Ward has had many incarnations, including private detective, classical musician, television talk-show host, and actress, having performed in dinner theater, summer stock, and Off-Broadway, as well as in commercials, radio, and film. But she found her true calling reading books for the blind and physically handicapped for the Library of Congress Talking Books program, for which she received the prestigious Alexander Scourby Award from the American Foundation for the Blind. An AudioFile Earphones Award winner, her many audiobooks include Dancing in the Streets by Barbara Ehrenreich, Breaking Free by Lauraine Snelling, The Second Journey by Joan Anderson, and Lion in the White House by Aida D. Donald. She now records from her studio amidst the beauty of the Southern Oregon mountains.

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"A stunning portrayal of one of today's legendary women's basketball treasurers." ---Alana M. Glass, Esq. Forbes.com SportsMoney Contributor Expand reviews
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