Being an athlete at Notre Dame just honed my skills, just polished me up to be the best doctor I could ever want to be. "Not a career in sports, but a career with a lifetime given to patient care, and sports played a major role in my ability to handle all the challenges of being a doctor, a doctor that deals with cancer, cancer in babies, that can lead to death in babies. "It was just the beginning of my career," said Lally Shields, director of ocular oncology service at the Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia. Kanaley Award for excellence in athletics and academics, prepared her for a career as a world-renowned oncologist. We were just building the foundation, not thinking much about it."Ī successful basketball career, which included accolades like being the first woman to receive Notre Dame's Byron V. "I was more or less happy-go-lucky as I went about my basketball career, loving the sport and my teammates but never realizing that we were putting the cinder blocks for a magnificent ultimate program that was about to happen in the university. "I did not understand how important Title IX was and how much it impacted the University of Notre Dame and other universities," Lally Shields said. She was named co-captain of the team three times.
In the fourth year that Notre Dame had admitted women to the university and a few years after Title IX became law, Lally Shields became part of the first women's basketball team at the university. "So, I tried out for the team, and I was surprised that I made the team and it really became a very important part of my life." I really want to go out for basketball,'" Lally Shields said.
"I kept walking by that when I went to and from classes and I said, 'This is really bugging me. I only get this chance once.'"īut after continuing to see the note over the next few days, she knew she had to go for it. I know I played sports in high school, but I really want to focus on science while I'm here at Notre Dame. "I moved myself into my dormitory room, and as I walked up and down the stairs, I noticed that there was a little torn out sheet of paper that said, 'Women's varsity basketball tryouts.' I looked at it and said, 'That's not for me. "I just kind of stumbled upon it," Lally Shields said. Carol Lally Shields arrived at Notre Dame as a student in 1975, she didn't know she was going to play basketball, let alone that she would help lay the foundation for women's basketball at the university for decades to come.
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