Demby, Nicole J.2021-10-082021-10-082020https://hdl.handle.net/1794/2674993 pagesWomen started playing basketball less than a year after the game was invented and currently make up over a quarter of the playing community. However, less than 1% of all basketball shoes sold are female specific (Mirabella, 2018). When sports product companies do release a women’s basketball shoe, they simply scale down an existing men’s model and sell it in a feminine colorway, doing what is known in the industry as “shrink it and pink it”. Most female basketball players spend their entire career playing in men’s shoes. Due to the anatomical differences between men and women, men’s basketball shoes are not only overdesigned for women, but they also do not properly address the structural differences between men’s and women’s feet. Playing in men’s footwear perpetuates female underrepresentation within basketball and could be a factor in the massive gender gap of women’s ACL injuries in the sport compared to men. This research explores opportunities to design a suite of female-specific basketball shoes that decrease ACL injury propensity and optimize player performance.enCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USTechnical Report