Tag: My Title IX Story

I started high school in 1973 — just one year after Title IX went into effect. Growing up, I really had no idea that there were inequities when it …

As I think of Title IX, I am, to a great degree, filled with emotion. I’ve attempted to process, over the years, what has occurred since its passage but …

I was a first grader when Title IX became law in 1972. I am young enough to have benefited from it and old enough to be aware of having …

In the fall of 1971 — less than a year before Title IX was passed — I was hired to head the Department of Physical Education at Kansas State …

I have always loved sports and participated in them my whole life. But looking back, it’s clear that my generation did not have the opportunities and benefits that exist …

After high school, I went to Penn State University to major in health and physical education. While the university had a varsity men’s soccer team, women’s soccer still only …