UCLA great Ann Meyers Drysdale filled with pride watching Bruins win NCAA title
Ann Meyers Drysdale will always be a Bruin. The UCLA great and women's basketball pioneer smiled as she was honored with other members of the 1976 U. S.
women’s Olympic basketball team at Sunday’s national championship game.
PHOENIX (AP) — Ann Meyers Drysdale will always be a Bruin. The UCLA great and women's basketball pioneer smiled as she was honored with other members of the 1976 U. S.
women’s Olympic basketball team at Sunday’s national championship game. They all wore matching bright red Team USA shirts. But when Meyers Drysdale was introduced, she waved to the crowd at Mortgage Matchup Center in Phoenix , and then lifted up her red shirt to reveal a blue UCLA top celebrating the team she won a national championship with as a player.
That title was nearly 50 years ago in the now dissolved AIAW — the postseason tournament for women's college basketball before the NCAA took over in 1982 — but Meyers Drysdale was filled with the same joy watching UCLA defeat South Carolina for its first NCAA-era title on Sunday. “You know, there’s so much pride wearing USA across your jersey,” Meyers Drysdale said. "There’s no question that I am once a Bruin, aways a Bruin.