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Article: Hoop schemes: as long as the bouncing ball is leading to the bank, many women are choosing to play from the closet.(pressures on lesbian coaches and players to hide their sexual orientation)
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- August 18, 1998
- Author:
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Before April 5, basketball had been very good to Sherry' Winn. After graduating as an academic all-American and conference MVP in 1986 from the University of Charleston in West Virginia, Winn started coaching--a career she says "I wanted since I was about 2." Her reign at Montana State University-Northern in Havre amounted to a five-year, 137-20 rout, punctuated with five consecutive conference rifles and a national championship in 1993.
In 1996 Winn accepted an offer from the University of Southern Colorado in Pueblo, where she reconstructed the young team and more than tripled its wins in the 1997-1998 season. But momentum gave way to a bad dream when Winn ...