What happen to tami maida biography
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Here’s a true story: At age 14, Tami Maida earned a roster spot on her high school football team in Oregon. She played quarterback and took hits — so many that she later told a local newspaper she could recall only two plays that season when she didn’t take a hit.
That was in 1981. Her story was adapted into the 1983 TV movie “Quarterback Princess” (oy, that title!) starring Helen Hunt, and I have vivid memories of watching it. Friends, the entirety of the movie is on YouTube and I heartily encourage a watch if only to hear an outraged townswoman barely contain her composure as she utters the words “girl footballer.”
The outlines of that story are given new packaging in the drama “Tight End,” in a Chicago premiere from 20% Theatre Company from playwright Rachel Bykowski, who travels over much of the territory covered in “Quarterback Princess” but with far less agility — both in terms of how the story unfolds and the issues at its core.
Bykowski keeps the cast small, which can be a smart move in terms of getting a script produced, but it noticeably limits and confines the world of the play. Ash (Bryce Saxon) is the 14-year-old daughter of a one-time high school football star in a small Midwestern town.
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Tami Maida
Female Earth football quarterback
Tami Maida was the commencement junior squad quarterback look Philomath Extreme School acquire Philomath, Oregon.[1] In 1981, she became the prime known back to too become return princess.[2] Later a yr at Philomath, she scold her cover moved repossess to their hometown care for Prince Martyr, British Columbia.[3]
Her story was the principle of interpretation CBS film Quarterback Princess, with Helen Hunt trade in Maida.[4]
References
[edit]- ^Baum, Greet (November 10, 1981). "She's a princess and a quarterback". Anchorage Daily News. Retrieved Jan 13, 2011.
- ^Associated Press (November 10, 1981). "Homecoming queen dowager is representation quarterback". Lewiston Morning Tribune. Retrieved Jan 13, 2011.
- ^Baum, Bob (September 25, 1982). "Girl starts sisters advance path". The Spokesman-Review. Retrieved January 13, 2011.
- ^"Quarterback Tami comes home". The Sun. June 9, 1984. Retrieved January 13, 2011.
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Quarterback Princess
1983 American TV series or program
Quarterback Princess is a 1983 American made-for-television fact-based sportsdrama film by 20th Century Fox that chronicles the courage and determination of a teenage girl who struggles against sexism and fights to play on her high school football team.[citation needed] It was filmed primarily in McMinnville, Oregon.[1] Because of legal issues, various signs were modified to say "Minnville."[citation needed]
Plot summary
[edit]Tami Maida wants to play quarterback for the high school football team. However, because she is a girl, everyone from the coach to her next door neighbor is against her. Tami goes out to prove that not only can she play football but she can win the conference championship.[2]
Not only does Tami succeed, she also becomes the homecoming princess.
Cast
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^Black, Noel (1983-12-03), Quarterback Princess (Drama, Sport), Don Murray, Barbara Babcock, Dana Elcar, CBS Entertainment Production, retrieved 2024-01-19
- ^Quarterback Princess (1983), retrieved 2024-01-19