Ann Meyers

Ann Meyers Drysdale ( born March 26, 1955 in San Diego, born Ann Elizabeth Meyers) is a former basketball player and sports reporter. She was the first U.S. national team in basketball that was not included in the national team during their high school years. In 1979 she signed as the only woman a contract with an NBA team, the Indiana Pacers. Meyers is currently both CEO and President of the WNBA Phoenix Mercury Club, as well as the vice president of the men's team Phoenix Suns. After her career was Meyers basketball expert game analysis on numerous television stations.

Life

Ann Meyers was born on March 26, 1955 by Patricia and Bob Meyers, the sixth of eleven children in San Diego. You two year older brother, Dave Meyers played, apäter basketball in the NBA. She attended Sonora High School in La Habra, where he was in seven sports, including softball, badminton, field hockey, tennis and basketball, running. 1974 Meyers was taken as the first high school student in the national team. From 1976 to 1979 she played for the team of UCLA, the Bruins. In 1978 she succeeded in doing against Stephen F. Austin State University with 20 points, 14 rebounds, 10 assists and 10 steals, the first quadruple -double in the history of Division I college basketball. [Note 1]

Meyers won the 1975 women's national team gold at the Pan American Games. In the Summer Olympics 1976, the team won the silver medal at the FIBA World Championship in 1979, they won with teammates again gold.

1980 wrote Meyer for $ 50,000 a contract with the NBA Indiana Pacers Club. After sample workouts but was not needed for the team. Instead, Meyer was an analyst for the sport of basketball. From 1978 to 1980 Meyers played for the New Jersey Gems and was the first player who has been taken for the professional basketball league WBL under contract. From 1980 to 1982 she won the Women Superstars Championships. For the Olympic Games in 2008 and 2012, Meyers was an analyst of women's basketball from NBC Sports. She was a total of 26 years Sportanalystin for ESPN, CBS and NBC.

On 1 November 1986 Meyers married baseball player Don Drysdale and took his surname as her second. The first time that spouses were represented in the Hall of Fame of their respective sport. Don Drysdale died in July 3, 1993, when a heart attack.