Why Can Women Wear a Mens Basketball Shoe?
Actually, they can. For years they had no alternative. Sneaker manufacturers did not offer women’s basketball shoe models, and female basketball players had to make-do trying to fit their feet into a shoe made for a male. Now female basketball players can get the comfort and support for their feet that the male players have always had.Houston Comets forward and WNBA All-star Sheryl Swoopes describes the problem.”I just always wore a men’s shoe and it was always too heavy and too bulky. It just made my foot look and feel big.”Teammate and two-time WNBA MVP Cynthia Cooper goes further.”Our feet are not as wide as men’s so our shoes shouldn’t be either. Now our shoes fit our feet. We don’t have to get a half-size larger (to accommodate the narrowness of the female foot) and wear two pairs of socks.”Washington Mystics rookie All-star Chamique Holdsclaw has her own signature women’s model in Mystics colors. In college she had problems with wearing men’s shoes.”I had a hard time with the Adi
