Full-Court Press: Season Life Winning Basketball Team Women Who Made It Happpen

by Lauren Kessler

Book Overview

An unprecedented look inside the women's basketball team at the University of Oregon. Full Court Press celebrates the excitement, the tension, and the drama of women's basketball and explores the meaning of being a female athlete in America today.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525940359
• ISBN13: 9780525940357
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Full Court Press

The book was great. It was detailed and easy to reada, where as it described the life of these women vividly. You felt at home with each of the women and like you knew and understood all of their problems completely. Laure Kessler does a great job!

If she only knew!

In a way I loved the book. But I also felt sorry for some of the players, for having to put up with someone like coach Runge. Arianne Boyer was a great player and still is, and for Runge to treat her like that upsets me. I go to Fort Vancouver High School and my Basketball/Volleyball coach is Arianne Boyer. Yes alot of the book is true, but I feel people didn't really get to see the real side of Arianne like my teammates and I do. She is very supportive and understanding and she cares for each one of us. I'm very glad that Runge acted the way she did, because now Arianne doesn't treat us the same way. She understands how far to push us. I'm glad that the book came out, it made me understand where my coach came from and how far she has come.

Great, in-depth look at the Oregon women's hoop program.

Journalist Kessler takes a college team with little name recognition outside the Pacific Northwest and makes the characters fascinating! From the stubborn coach of the women's basketball team to the ringers from Australia who join the team after the school year begins to the wily lawyer in Atlanta, one wants to know what will happen. I think the reader sees both sides of the picture better than Jody the coach, and this is thanks to the honest approach of the author and the access she obtained to university staff as well as players and coaches. The author looks at Title IX and Oregon's slow movement to comply with the rules, and this mirrors much that is going on in higher education throughout the country, and thus is extremely timely.