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Women's Basketball Star @ Colgate Feb. 3

Thu, Jan 27, 2011

Women's Basketball Star @ Colgate Feb. 3

Sheryl Swoopes, one of the most visible women's basketbal players in the history of the game, will speak in Colgate's Love Auditorium, Thursday, Feb. 3 at 7 p.m.

After leading Texas Tech to a national championship, Swoopes -- rhymes with "hoops" -- became one of the marquee players in the fledgling WNBA. She played for the Houston Comets and later for the Seattle Storm, and was the first female basketball player to have a sneaker named in her honor by Nike: Air Swoopes.

She also played on three gold-medal U.S. women's Olympic basketball team.

In 2005, while still in the WNBA, she announced she was a lesbian. In 2005 she told The York Times:

"I was at a point in my life where I am just tired of having to pretend to be somebody I am not. I was basically living a lie. For the last seven, eight years, I was waiting to exhale."

Like many highly-paid performers, Swoopes experienced financial problems, which she blamed on those she had hired to manage her finances.

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