Molly bolin

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Molly Bolin Kazmer was the first player signed to a contract in the first Women's Professional Basketball League in the United States. In 1978 the Women's Pro Basketball League was launched by founder Bill Byrne, and existed for three seasons before folding.

Molly began playing basketball after moving to Moravia, Iowa (pop. 700) while in the fifth grade. Iowa has a long history of girls high school basketball and enjoyed tremendous popularity with the six on six rules that the girls played until the 1980s. She played on her junior high team at Moravia and attended her first basketball camp the summer before she started high school. In her first game as a junior, she scored 63 points on her 16th birthday. It was just the beginning as she averaged 50.4 ppg as a junior and 54.8 per game as a senior. Molly scored over 70 points in a thirty-two minute game five times and set a single game scoring record of 83 points. She would finish with 1370 points for the season, also a school record.

Molly was recruited to Grandview College in Des Moines, Iowa, and went on to set several records and lead her team to its first national tournament appearance. Molly only played two seasons at Grandview but after the first season she married Dennie Bolin and returned a year later after her son, Damien, was born. Molly graduated in 1978 with a degree in telecommunications.

The Iowa Cornets were the first team in the WBL and they signed Molly to a contract in the office of then Iowa Governor, Robert Ray in June of 1978. She struggled early on to find her place on the team, then broke out to score 53 points in one game and set a league record in mid-season. She played in the first WBL All-Star game held at the Felt Forum in New York City, then led her Iowa team to a league championship play-off with the Houston Angels. Houston would win the best of 5 series, 3 games to 2. Molly was selected to the WBL's All-Pro Team.

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