Vivian Stringer (Rutgers) and Pat Summitt (Tennessee) are without a doubt two of the biggest names in women’s basketball.
On January 3, the coaches’ teams battled it out for the 27th time. The Lady Vols’ 20-point comeback in the second half made school history.
Together, Stringer and Summitt have compiled 1,805 victories over 73 seasons, and they’re [...]
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Posted in NCAA, Olympics, inspiration on Jan 2nd, 2009
Here’s a special treat - a homemade video that I created with Jane from Pretty Tough this week. I hope you like it! Please feel free to embed or slap on your Facebook page.
These women worked hard this year, and they certainly deserve the credit.
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Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 16th, 2008
If you’re a female athlete and you only read one industry publication this month, check out NCAA’s feature, On Her Game - an excellently written editorial about modern female involvement in collegiate athletics.
Author Michelle Brutlag Hosick does a great job of explaining how female student-athletes are distinguishable in 2008.
Brutlag says,
They are female student-athletes in [...]
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This is an explanation excuse that Edgar Johnson, University of Delaware athletic director gave for his decision to cut men’s indoor track and add (eventually) women’s golf.
Check out this post from EBuz at the Title IX Blog. Interesting stuff.
My favorite point of hers,
“Saying “there’s no money” is one thing. Saying “we’d rather spend money [...]
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I couldn’t believe my eyes. Yesterday, at the top of NCAA.org read the question,
Will the economy undo women’s professional sports? Would this have a trickle-down impact on women’s college sports?
My personal opinion is no. The economy won’t undo women’s professional sports. Our culture’s value system will. When the economy is down, so are programs (across [...]
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Posted in NCAA, Sports Programs, Title IX on Dec 2nd, 2008
The NCAA has released its first pregnancy handbook - a long-awaited resource for information and support for administrators and coaches.
The Women’s Sports Foundation says,
“The first of its kind, this critical publication suggests model athletics department policies, a model student-athlete handbook statement and certified athletic trainer best practices. The final chapter shares stories of successful male and female [...]
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NCAA President Myles Brand told USA Today last week that Title IX is not to blame for cutting men’s programs during tough economic times.
In my opinion, this is a message that was barely heard and needs to be shouted from the rooftops.
Because of tough economic times, the NCAA expects that some schools may drop men’s [...]
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Posted in College, NCAA, Sports Programs, injuries on Nov 14th, 2008
If you are a female and you played sports through puberty and beyond, changes are pretty good that you either suffered an ACL injury or some of your teammates did.
A recent NCAA report says that females are two and a half to four times more likely to tear their ACLs then men. And new [...]
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Posted in Skiing, inspiration on Nov 13th, 2008
The NCAA Honors committee announced yesterday that Kelly Brush, a former skiing student-athlete at Middlebury College, has been named the recipient of the 2009 NCAA Inspiration Award.
It was always Brush’s dream to ski for Middlebury and follow in the footsteps of her skiing-oriented family. Her dream came true when she was accepted to the 2008 [...]
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Posted in College, Title IX on Oct 24th, 2008
A study was recently conducted about the perceived gender-equity barriers in college coaching and administration. In this study, which will be available on the NCAA website in November, it was found that 51.7 percent of female student-athletes said they would prefer their coach to be a male, with only 40.7 percent preferring their coach to [...]
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