She was 19 years old, 5'11" tall, and a graduate of Union-Whitten High School, where her class had only 34 students enrolled; the opportunity to go to San Francisco was irresistible. While there she met Wilt Chamberlain, who joked that she had broken his triple-digit shooting record. In 2018, the Warriors invited her and some of the other women from her league to a halftime ceremony honoring them during Women's History Month.