WNBA leads in sports diversity study

By DAVE SKRETTA (AP)

NEW YORK — The WNBA still leads the way in sports diversity.

The league received an A-plus Thursday for the second consecutive year in an annual report card on race and gender. The WNBA is the only professional league to have received that grade.

"It's always great to be able to model the kind of behavior you want to see," WNBA president Donna Orender said. "We talk about being an organizing that wants to lead and create change, and to be rated as high as we are on values we prize is great."

The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, run by Richard Lapchick at the University of Central Florida, rates pro leagues and college sports programs on the number of participating women and minorities.

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