For Release: February 15th, 2000
In Kentucky, basketball has been king for as long as anyone can remember. But it has had its dark days. The sport flourished in the 1920s for boys and girls alike, but then was banned for girls in 1932 by the state athletic association. In the 1970s, it re-emerged, thanks to federal equity law Title IX. Since then, girls' basketball has developed into a fiercely competitive and popular sport in Kentucky.
Girls' Hoops , airing on KET2 Monday, Feb. 28 at 9:30/8:30 p.m. CT, tells a story of high passions in small towns as it chronicles the history of girls' high school basketball in rural Kentucky. Through the stories of women who played and those who couldn't, the audience experiences the female counterpoint to the men's basketball legacy.
Filmed over the course of the 1996 basketball season, Girls' Hoops features interviews with players and coaches from eastern Kentucky coal-mining towns; interviews with women players from the 1920s and 1970s; archival photographs and film; and footage of present-day teams featuring intense games, enthusiastic fans and rousing half-time talks.
Girls' Hoops , produced by Appalshop, Inc. in partnership with WKYU/Bowling Green, is closed-captioned for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
Contact: Todd Piccirilli
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