Mark KennedyMy friend Cindy and I were talking in the break room at work one day this week when she said something I found fascinating.
We were discussing the Lady Vols basketball team, specifically how some of the team’s star players haven’t always wanted the ball at crunch time.
We agreed that if we had to pick one person to hit a pull-up jump shot to save our lives it would be Diana Taurasi, a confident (some would say cocky) WNBA player and former University of Connecticut All-American, who has a reputation for making clutch baskets.
“You know, girls are different than boys, that way,” said Cindy, herself a former college athlete.
Cindy explained that sometimes in team sports, female athletes get so locked-in on being good, supportive teammates that they don’t develop the “give-me-the-ball” attitude that some male players seem to have.