[81alum]

i loved watching the highlights - Val Whiting deserves more mention when discussing the best Cardinal bigs!  I remembered how great she looked running the floor and finishing near the rim but I’d forgotten she was also good from mid-range. 

Plus it’s always good to see Tennessee lose - in overtime that year.

Thanks for sharing.

What I really noticed was how full Maples was, how loud, and how many students and young people were there.  Why didn't that continue?

Those students/young people are us now!

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  Anyone know of one for 1990?

There’s this:
Episode of the PBS series Frontline is a portrait of the Stanford University women's basketball team, coached by Tara VanDerveer, during their 1989-1990 season which culminated in their winning the NCAA National Championship.
https://exhibits.stanford.edu/stanford-s...f979yd8065

That is a FABULOUS Frontline documentary.  I had never seen it before.  What a wonderful way to relive the 1990 experience, and to put it in the context of the struggles for women's athletics in that era.  Fun to see the bench players with the leg-shuffle-and-cross.  Tara and Amy look so YOUNG!  And Tara is much more in-your-face, standing and pacing and yelling on the sidelines.  She really has matured over the years.  All in all, every WBB fan should watch that documentary.  Thank you for bringing the link into this thread!

(I've changed the thread title to include both national championships.)

[81alum]

i loved watching the highlights - Val Whiting deserves more mention when discussing the best Cardinal bigs!  I remembered how great she looked running the floor and finishing near the rim but I’d forgotten she was also good from mid-range. 

Plus it’s always good to see Tennessee lose - in overtime that year.

Thanks for sharing.

What I really noticed was how full Maples was, how loud, and how many students and young people were there.  Why didn't that continue?

Those students/young people are us now!

---

  Anyone know of one for 1990?

There’s this:
Episode of the PBS series Frontline is a portrait of the Stanford University women's basketball team, coached by Tara VanDerveer, during their 1989-1990 season which culminated in their winning the NCAA National Championship.
https://exhibits.stanford.edu/stanford-s...f979yd8065

That is a FABULOUS Frontline documentary.  I had never seen it before.  What a wonderful way to relive the 1990 experience, and to put it in the context of the struggles for women's athletics in that era.  Fun to see the bench players with the leg-shuffle-and-cross.  Tara and Amy look so YOUNG!  And Tara is much more in-your-face, standing and pacing and yelling on the sidelines.  She really has matured over the years.  All in all, every WBB fan should watch that documentary.  Thank you for bringing the link into this thread!

(I've changed the thread title to include both national championships.)