The United States women's national basketball team is on the cusp of winning its sixth-straight gold medal in the Summer Olympics and eighth overall Saturday when the Americans play Spain in Rio de Janeiro. The first gold medal the Americans won was in 1984 at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad in Los Angeles, and former Redbird women's basketball great and current assistant coach Cathy Boswell (Class of 1983, Percy Family Hall of Fame Class of 1997) was a member of the first gold medal-winning team in 1984.
Boswell's path to the Olympics actually started in 1980 when she was invited to the Olympic tryout because of her participation with the Junior Olympics.