‘Thrilled to be a team’: Members of the first MSSU women’s tennis team remember playing a lifetime sport

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Nov. 5—Fifty years later, members of the first women’s tennis team at Missouri Southern State University recall their days as sports pioneers fondly. The team was put together in 1974 after Betsy Taylor and Terrie Dresh played basketball on the first MSSU women’s team that winter. In spring, the basketball team split as some formed a softball team while Dresh and Taylor pursued tennis. “That …

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