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Women Take the Field

1923 UB Women's Basketball Team photo.

In the fall of 1922, Lillias MacDonald, the newly appointed Dean of Women, helped to establish a physical education program for women at UB, which included the formation of the Women’s Athletic Association (WAA). Approximately 200 women attended the university at that time. Run by a student governing council, the WAA developed a foundation for UB women’s athletics that, according to the 1923 Iris yearbook, “would be strong enough to stand the test of time.”