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}} Lusia "Lucy" Harris-Stewart (born Lusia Harris; February 10, 1955) is a former American basketball player. Harris is considered to be one of the pioneers of women's basketball. She played for Delta State University and won three consecutive Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) National Championships, the predecessors to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championships, from 1975 to 1977. In international level, she represented the United States' national team and won the silver medal in the 1976 Olympic Games, the first ever women's basketball tournament in the Olympic Games. She played professional basketball with the Houston Angels of the Women's Professional Basketball League (WBL) and was the first and only woman ever officially drafted by the National Basketball Association (NBA), a men's professional basketball league. For her achievements, Harris has been inducted to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. ==Early life== Harris was born in Minter City, Mississippi to Ethel and Willie Harris, a vegetable farmer. She is the tenth of eleven children and the fourth of five daughters. All of her brothers and one of her older sisters, Janie, also played basketball. Harris and her siblings attended Amanda Elzy High School in Greenwood, Mississippi.〔 Harris played basketball under coach Conway Stewart in high school. She won the most valuable player award three consecutive years, served as team captain and made the state All-Star team. She scored a school record 46 points in one game and led her school to the state tournament in Jackson, Mississippi. After her high school graduation, she planned to attend Alcorn State University, which did not have a women's basketball team. However, she was asked by Melvin Hemphill, the recruiter for coach Margaret Wade, who was restarting a collegiate women's team, if she would attend Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi. This was before Title IX, so there were no sports scholarships for women. She attended school on a combination of academic scholarships and work study funds.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lusia Harris」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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