During her time at the University of Northern Iowa, Dr. Wanda Green positively affected the campus everywhere she went. As the school’s first women’s basketball and field hockey coach upon their inception, Dr. Green and her players were not given a whole lot when the programs were first started. The seasons initially started with about seven or eight games per year, but then gradually grew to about 20 games in the season after about ten years. As Dr. Green put it:
“We operated on a budget of about $300 for the first year. The students had to pack their own lunches and we didn’t have pre-game meals or anything else of that nature.