David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

(Darren Dugan) #1

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Vivek Ranadivé’s basketball team
played in the National Junior Basketball
seventh-and-eighth-grade division
representing Redwood City. The girls
practiced at Paye’s Place, a gym in
nearby San Carlos. Because Ranadivé
had never played basketball, he
recruited a couple of experts to help
him. The first was Roger Craig, a former
professional athlete who worked for
Ranadivé’s software company.^1 After
Craig signed on, he recruited his
daughter Rometra, who had played
basketball in college. Rometra was the
kind of person you assigned to guard

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