Biografia de senda berenson biography

Senda Berenson (Abbott), nicknamed the “Mother of Women’s Basketball,” was born on March 19, 1868, in Baltramentz (Butrimonys), a town near Vilna, Lithuania.

Seven years later, Berenson’s family immigrated to Boston and changed the family name from Valvrojenski to Berenson. Her mother made the family only speak English and ignored their Jewish religious practices to better fit in. Senda went to the Boston Conservatory of Music but withdrew due to poor health.

She enrolled in the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics where she began her career as teaching physical education.

In 1891, at the age of 23, she began working at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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She read about a new indoor game invented in nearby Springfield College by a graduated student by the name of James Naismith. She met Naismith at a sports symposium at Yale University and he encouraged her to introduce basketball to her students.

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