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Senda Berenson was the women to invent women's baksetball.
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Berenson's freshmen played the sophomore class in the first women's collegiate game held on 22 of March in 1893.
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Form 1895 until 1970, the term "women's basketball" was also used to refer to netball, which evolved in parallel with modern women's basketball. It is mostly popular in America.
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The first intercollegiate women's basketball game was played teams from Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, in 1896.
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By the 1970s the sport had attracted the noticed the international Olympic Committee, which added women's basketball as an official sport of the Olympic Games in the 1976.
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The league was founded on April 24, 1996, as the women's counterpart to the National Basketball Association, and league play started in 1997.
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Women's basketball made its first appearance was at the Commonwealth Games in 2006.
