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  2. The Mighty Macs is a 2009 American sports drama film by director Tim Chambers. It stars Carla Gugino in the lead role of Cathy Rush, a Hall of Fame women's basketball coach. The film premiered in the 2009 Heartland Film Festival and was released theatrically in the United States on October 21, 2011 through indie film label Freestyle Releasing.

  3. In the early '70s, Cathy Rush becomes the head basketball coach of a tiny girls' Catholic college that has no gym and is in danger of being sold, and she determines to steer her team to their first national championship.

  4. The Mighty Macs (2009) Movies, TV, Celebs, and more...

    • A Film Is Born
    • A Glorious Trail
    • ‘We’re Number One!’
    • Trophies of A Different Sort
    • Rush to The Rescue

    On October 21, in a red-carpet premiere, the Cinderella story of the 1972 Immaculata College basketball team’s season-in-the-sun opened in movie theatres across the nation to coincide with the 40th anniversary of women’s basketball’s first championship season. The Mighty Macs, the film, directed by Tim Chambers and starring Carla Gugino, David Bore...

    The Mighty Macs story begins in 1970 when Cathy Rush was hired as the Immaculata head women’s basketball coach at a salary of $450 a year. She took the job, knowing there was no gym to play in, no real fan base, hardly any money to support the program and barely enough players to fill out the roster. Despite the obstacles, Rush, a woman way ahead o...

    In that Camelot-like 1972 championship season, Immaculata’s only loss came in the regional final of the qualifying portion of the national tournament, a 70-38 whupping by its crosstown rival and the team it would eventually meet in the national championship, West Chester University. Returning to campus after the West Chester drubbing, the team was ...

    At the awards banquet celebrating the national title, Sister Mary of Lourdes, then-president of Immaculata, presented the players not with rings but with rosary beads plain brown wooden rosary beads. Sister Mary told them, “The rosaries will serve you better than any ring. “ So they would. Those rosaries would forever be a symbol of the mystical an...

    Cathy Rush had it all figured out: “My life plan was to get an education degree, teach for a couple of years, get married, have a family and never work again. “ She got the degree, taught for two years and got married. Everything was running according to plan. But then at the age of 23, she got the itch to coach. Immaculata hired her in 1970. She c...

  5. The chapel seen in the movie is not the chapel of the real-life Villa Maria Hall. The one where the real-life girls had gone to mass was not suited for filming purposes, so a nearby Catholic church was used for the filming.

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    • Drama, Sport
    • Tim Chambers
    • 2011-10-21
  6. The Mighty Macs is a 2009 American sports drama film by director Tim Chambers. It stars Carla Gugino in the lead role of Cathy Rush, a Hall of Fame women's basketball coach. The film premiered in the 2009 Heartland Film Festival and was released theatrically in the United States on October 21, 2011 through indie film label Freestyle Releasing.

  7. The Mighty Macs is a 2009 note Sports Story Drama, written and directed by Tim Chambers, Based on a True Story (though with a few liberties taken). At the start of The '70s , Immaculata College, a small all-female Catholic school outside Philadelphia , is looking for a new basketball coach.

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