Forgotten Champions, about the 1982 Rutgers women’s basketball team, set to debut on the Big Ten Network
The story about the Rutgers women’s basketball team that won the 1982 AIAW National Championship, Forgotten Champions, is set to make its Big Ten Network debut.
The film is scheduled to air on BTN on Monday, March 27 at 7:00 p.m. ET. Narrating the documentary is Carli Lloyd, the former Rutgers women’s soccer standout who became one of the top women’s soccer players in history with the United States national team.
Co-producing the film is the duo of Jon Newman and Geoff Sadow. The highly-respected and accomplished Sue Hovey wrote and co-directed the project.
Forgotten Champions tells the story of Rutgers shocked the women’s college basketball world in 1982 by beating heavily favored Texas to win the championship. That team was coached by Theresa Grentz, the legendary Rutgers women’s basketball coach, who in 1976 became the first full-time women’s basketball coach in the nation.
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That team helped pave the way for the next four decades of success that has seen the women’s basketball program consistently make the NCAA Tournament.
Forgotten Champions has been painstakingly put together as a labor of love by Newman and Sadow, taking five years to put together and complete. Newman is president of the Knights of the Raritan, an NIL collective that supports Rutgers athletics and recently completed a $1 million fundraising objective.
