The W.A.A. -- Women's Athletic Association -- sponsored all sports for female athletes and extracurricular activities for all female students.  These included hiking, dances, and more up through the 50s, when they were able to focus more on sports thanks to the Y.W.C.A.'s reestablishment.  While extracurricular activities ran on a fairly normal system, sports were a bit different.  Sports ran on a point system, and so long as a woman earned enough points, earned through both participation and winning games, they would be a lettered varsity player.  Women also had to maintain a certain level of points in order to continue playing.  

Sports were then divided into two types: major and minor.  Major sports were considered more demanding and competitive while minor sports included ones that weren't as popular or were less competitive, even bordering on the extracurricular.  Major sports (from the 40s-50s) were hockey, basketball, volleyball, and softball.  Minor sports were tennis, archery, ping-pong, badminton, shuffleboard, bowling, hiking, swimming, golf, horse riding, and biking.  Swimming was a bit of a novel activity as the KCW campus, or Lexington Avenue Campus as it was called, had an indoor pool -- a rarity for the time.  Centre's campus would not get an indoor pool of their own for a while, so male students who wanted to go swimming would have to visit the KCW campus gym in order to do so.  

In regard to basketball:

"We had two rival teams in the Women's College. At first it was the town girls against the boarding students. But this began to create such rivalry and tension that I think President Acheson and his wife and some of the faculty felt that this was bad because we were getting to be rivals instead of friends. Then they changed and it was class teams instead. We had the Kickapoos and the Wappenhoochies. Oh, we had great games!"

- Mary Ashby Cheek