She Got Game: A Personal Odyssey

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Cynthia Cooper is the best female basketball player in the world today. In the past 10 years she has accumulated dozens of MVP awards, scoring titles, gold medals, and championships -- and she didn't pick up a basketball until the age of 16. But that is just part of her story -- because none of it came easy. In this gripping autobiography, Cynthia tells how she made it to the top of her profession: about the years of growing up fatherless with seven brothers and sisters in Watts; how she honed her game against older guys at the local basketball court, winning a scholarship to USC; and about her years on the European basketball circuit where she slowly established herself as the best female player in the world, culminating with Olympic glory and the advent of the WNBA. Above all, "She Got Game "is the story of a gifted young athlete who never took no for an answer and is living proof that hard work, commitment, and determination pave the way for success -- no matter what the odds.