Members of the UWindsor women's basketball team are shown here in a file photo from 1963, when they were still known as the 'Lancerettes.'
They’ve come a long way from being called the “Lancerettes.”
In the last 50 years, women student-athletes at the University of Windsor have gone from being “a down-sized version of the real” Lancers to earning legitimacy, respectability, and along the way, a bulging trophy case full of national and provincial championships in basketball, track and field, volleyball and curling.







