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WNT, the acronym for "'''Women's National Team'''," applies to all sports and is used by a number of English speaking countries (e.g.: Canada, England, New Zealand, USA). The term is used within a sport's community when there is only reference to that specific sport (e.g.: "We got tickets for the WNT's next home game!"). When clarifying which sport or which country's team, the reference might be, "the US Basketball WNT" or "the Soccer Germany WNT." Not all WNTs are paid (professional) or have a Women's National League from which to draw new players. When Women Professional Athletes are able to dedicate themselves full-time to developing their skills, they raise the level of play in a sport and provide much higher caliber Women's National Team players. Most top women athletes must work full-time jobs, in addition to their training, practice and competition schedules. In the United States, Women's Pro Sports teams and leagues are still relatively new and athletes under-paid as of 2005. In America for instance, 51 years after inception of the men's NBA, the WNBA began its first season in 1997. Salaries are surprisingly low for such highly skilled athletes. The 2005 WNBA team salary cap was $0.673 million . The men's NBA cap was over 60 times higher, at $43.87 million . The enjoys financial backing via the NBA and supplies a stream of professional players to the US Basketball WNT . SEE ALSO
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