Highlander History: UCR’s Women In Sports Program

The UCR women’s basketball team just beat UCSD 89-74 in the Big West Conference, so it’s a good time to remember the sport’s early history at the university. UCR Women’s basketball and all other official participation in athletics by women at the university started with the Women’s Intramural Sports Program, called WISP, in 1963 — almost 10 years after the university was founded in 1954.