Tara VanDerveer: There was no organized sports. There was play days. There might be an occasional sport, you know, game. I played field hockey. We played against another school a couple of times, but there was no practice, no uniforms. You wore your gym suit. It was nothing like it is now. Well, when I was younger, you know, I played with boys all the time. And, you know, we just played, like, in the park or in the driveway or something like that. And when I was like, you know, maybe 10 years old or 12 years old, and as I got older, fewer girls played. And when I was the only girl, boys were kind of like, “Well, you know, this is, you know, for us.” I always brought the best basketball. So, if they wanted to use my ball, then I got to play. That was my way onto the court. But I could play with them. And so I had, in my 9th grade yearbook, our gym teacher—who was also the boys’ basketball coach—wrote, “To the best basketball player in the ninth grade, boy or girl.” And that was… it was really almost like a kind of a Pyrrhic victory in that it was, yeah, I was best, but I didn’t get to play on a team. And it was really, really painful for me not to have a team to play on. But, you know, obviously, the boys—and as they got older and, you know, their bodies changed and they matured—then, I mean, probably like in high school, I probably could have played on the boys’ varsity team, but I don’t know that I would have been the best player as a senior. But in college, you know, then there’s a huge gap between kind of the size of the guys in college and the size of the women on the women’s team.