Just getting started: Tennis, equality icon Billie Jean King sets stage for PWHL ‘trailblazers’
By Rory Sumner, published to CBC Sports
Billie Jean King: tennis icon, women’s rights advocate … hockey ambassador?
While the 12-time Grand Slam champion admits she does not know much about the sport of hockey yet, there really was no other option to kick off the Professional Women’s Hockey League draft on Monday at CBC headquarters in Toronto than King, whose name has long been synonymous with gender equality in sports.
