by admin | Dec 4, 2023 | #MeToo, Representation, SEW
Thirty-two female athletes filed a lawsuit against the University of Oregon on Friday that alleges the school is violating Title IX. The plaintiffs, who are all either on the varsity beach volleyball team or the club rowing team, are accusing the school of “depriving...
by admin | Aug 15, 2023 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Coach Billie Moore sat her basketball team down before its 1976 silver medal match against Czechoslovakia at the Montreal Summer Games. The squad had endured a long and winding journey to get to this point, now on the precipice of history. Moore delivered an important...
by admin | Oct 27, 2022 | Representation, SEW
When former softball coach Sharon Drysdale arrived at Northwestern in 1979, the team had no field. The Wildcats played at a park on Lincoln Street that featured just benches — no dugouts or fences. Eventually, NU found a home field, but it was still missing fences....
by admin | Aug 22, 2022 | Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
Within three years of finishing college, Emma Bates was the best female marathoner in the United States. She won the national title in 2018 and was third at the half-marathon championships in 2019. She made her major marathon debut later that year, in Chicago, and...
by admin | Jul 1, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Athletes, perhaps more than anyone else, make decisions about their bodies every single day in order to perform their best. They choose how and where to train, who to train with, what to eat and what to wear for optimal performance. They have to time these decisions...
by admin | Jun 24, 2022 | Representation, SEW
When I was 5 years old, my mom signed me up for ballet. I was excited. I flew down the stairs in my leotard. And, my soccer cleats! My mother gave me a look of shock and explained that I couldn’t wear cleats to ballet. I protested that my brothers could wear cleats to...
by admin | Jun 23, 2022 | Representation, SEW
As the nation marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of Title IX, two-thirds of Americans say they know “not much” or “nothing at all” about the federal law that bans discrimination on the basis of sex at schools that receive federal funds, according to a...
by admin | Jun 23, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
One thing you learn from watching athletes closely is that muscle isn’t power and in fact can be pretty clumsy and useless. Movement is power — mobility. It’s the tremendous sense of movement created by Title IX over the past 50 years that matters. And sometimes the...
by admin | Jun 17, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
I’ve saved just about everything. Since my journey in sports began almost exactly in parallel with the passage of Title IX 50 years ago, my souvenir collection has grown: newspaper clippings; cards; photos; game credentials; speeches I gave as the first president of...
by admin | Jun 16, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Title IX radically altered the sports landscape, but not all at once and not without resistance. In the early years of the statute, the “forgotten heroes” challenged bias and championed equality—and the impact is still felt today. Read more about Title IX’s pioneers...
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