Janovy

Jena Janovy is a strange bird—a college basketball player who is a) female and b) short (5 feet 3 inches) and, perhaps oddest of all, lets neither of those things dampen her rabid enthusiasm for the game. […] John Janovy Jr., a professor of biology at the University of Nebraska and the author of several books on science and nature, decided to observe Jena to see if he could figure out how she got this way - that is, athletic - and what good or harm her obsession might do her.

1987 June 14, Karen Stabiner, “Putting her Heart through the Hoop”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2017, retrieved 29 Jul 2010