Women’s athletics classes were originally held in the Main Building, room permitting. They would then take over the basement of the Women’s Building in 1903. In 1914, N Hall, commonly referred to as “the Shack,” was acquired for women’s athletics. Here, UT women’s basketball players practiced and played for over…
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Considered one of Anna Hiss’s lasting achievements and a model facility during its day, the Women’s Gymnasium was built in 1931 (The gymnasium was eventually renamed in her honor two years after her death in 1974). Hiss served as a crucial component in planning its construction having traveled, of her…
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In 1933, Intramural Sports for Women and the University of Texas Sports Association were formed with UTSA serving as the head of women’s sports clubs on campus. The organization was student elected and governed and oversaw program operations. Member dues and other projects funded UTSA and belonging to a club…
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For many years there was always a small group of individuals dissatisfied with the state of basketball at UT, urging for more intercollegiate competition and physicality. During the early 1940s, small changes were being made to the game elsewhere to make the sport less constricted, more like the men’s game.…
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Over time, as public sentiment changed, so did Hiss’s policies. She became more sympathetic of competition and open to the desires of the student-run organizations and by the 1950s basketball thrived within the intramural structure. Intramural champions were allowed to play teams from other schools and an all-star team competed…
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