MIGHTY 'MACS

Day 84 - 52° - Rain - Lerew Road
Day 83 - 75° - Sunny - Lerew Road
Day 82 - 70° - Sunny - Spring Meadows Park

There was a 20° change in temperature today, rainy and cloudy. I was happy to get a lot of yard work done this week and some early vegetables (broccoli, cabbage, lettuce and spinach) in the ground. They got a soaking today. Everything is budding and with the temperature change, I pray there isn’t a frost this week.

Last night we watched the movie Mighty ‘Macs. It is the story of a woman’s basketball team from Immaculata College in Pennsylvania. In 1972, they won the first-ever National Women’s College Basketball Championship! The amazing part of the story is that this team, from a catholic college of less than 800 women, beat all odds to win the championship. They had no gym (as the gym burnt down), no uniforms, no team bus, no money. What they had was a dynamic coach who believed in them, and a dedicated group of women who worked hard to make a dream come true.

This movie was a “Rudy” for women type of movie, a real inspiration. The team beat all odds, and went on to win 2 more national titles. This team from Immaculata opened the door to women’s basketball as we know it today, but got left behind when the bigger schools could spend the money and recruit the best women. It is a dream team that only comes along once in a lifetime.

It was fun to watch the movie because I attended Immaculata College for 2 years prior to the Mighty ‘Macs. It was in my sophomore year that the gym burnt down the day of our dance! The scenes of the picturesque campus and the conversations among the women in the movie, brought back memories and an awareness of the cultural “expectations” of women for that time.

We are still attached to Immaculata (now a university and now coed) as my sister was a professor of education for several years. She died @ 14 years ago of cancer and is buried there. My folks celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary with a mass at Camilla Hall, and many long-time friends from the College attended the event.

Way to go!