San Francisco Mei Wahs
Competing in the women's city recreational league, the SF Mei Wahs found success by pushing an uptempo style game. The girls' teams also played other Chinese-American women's teams as well as pick-up games against males of their social group. For the most part, Chinese-American girls were unwelcome on school basketball teams; the hostility they faced spurred creation of their own teams. These athletes had to share facilities with the rest of the entire Chinese-American community in SF. At the time, one playground served the entirety of Chinatown, San Francisco. Nevertheless, the SF Mei Wahs captured their division title, two years in a row. The Chinese-American community also had a male basketball team, named the Hong Wah Kues.
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