Rosemary Faya Prola played basketball for Maryland in 1967-1968, at Mount de Sales Academy and in the Baltimore CYO league in the 1960s. She's written an Op-Ed piece for the Baltimore Sun about attending the first rounds of the tournament "Thrilled by new view of women's sports."

The last paragraph reads:

Most exciting for an older player like me is the respect and recognition accorded today's women athletes. It shouldn't have taken four decades for the 25-foot shot that a girl on my Catholic Youth Organization team constantly took to become a staple of competitive players everywhere. But now, for women athletes, the sky's the limit.