50 years later Iowa champion discusses changes in womens basketball

CORALVILLE — In high-tops and white socks, with a basketball under one arm and a homemade pennant in the other, a 1960s-era, black-and-white photo of a young Heather Heddens epitomizes the dream scrawled on her hand-drawn flag. “Future Bullette 1969-73 We Hope!” A Bullette was the female version of her future Mediapolis High School’s bulldog mascot, and the “hope” captured her ambition to play 6-on-6 basketball, the game Iowa high school girls played from the 1920s through 1993. “I think it’s a lot more finesse. It counts a lot more on passing and cutting, and screen and roll, and moving…