Jeanie Buss was a regular high school student in the 1970s when one day, she was told she would be on the girls' golf team. The issue was Buss had never played golf a day in her life.
In 1972, Title IX was passed. It was a federal law that, among other things, attempted to even the playing field between men and women in athletics. Without a girls' golf team, Palisades High School in the Los Angeles area could not have a boys' golf team. So, girls' golf became a sport at the school -- and, as a senior, Buss ended up winning a championship.