Successful women professional athletes are going to be part of the scenery here in America. Many girls now take it for granted that athletic opportunities are nearly as plentiful for them as they are for boys. High school girls are often acutely aware that college scholarships await talented young athletes in many sports. Programs have sprung up to train girls from poor neighborhoods in sports like soccer and volleyball and introduce them to college scouts. One club, the Starlings Volleyball Clubs USA, has about 2,500 players in 27 cities and on three American Indian reservations.
Colleges aggressively recruit the best young female athletes.
She averages 21 points a game and is being recruited by more than two dozen universities. Unless she is injured, she said, basketball should make her family rich. My father, a Hummer. My sister says she's going to be my agent. But if her basketball career takes off, Martin can clearly see the arc of her future profession.