Wayne Coffey
The Gallaudet womenâ€™s basketball team has just defeated the number one ranked team in the country, the College of New Jersey. A reporter, not wanting to be insensitive, delicately broaches the obvious question: â€œHow can you play so well despite your hearing impairment?â€ Nanette Virnig, a forward for Gallaudet, puts him at ease. â€œWeâ€™re not hearing impaired,â€ she says. â€œWeâ€™re deaf.â€,Winning Sounds Like This, is the remarkable story of the nationâ€™s most unique and inspiring womenâ€™s basketball team and its 1999â€“2000 season. It is the touching chronicle of players who donâ€™t hear buzzers or cheers, a coach who has never used a whistle, and a university that is a mecca for deaf culture throughout the world. ,Wayne Coffey offers an intimate and unsparing look at the playersâ€™ lives on and off the court, their struggles to overcome mistreatment and misconceptions of the hearing world, and their deeply rooted ,connection to one another.
Nonfiction,Sports,Sports,Sports,Basketball
Winning Sounds Like This: A Season with the Women's Basketball Team at Gallaudet, the World's Only University for the Deaf