Tag: Title IX

On this date 50 years ago, 37 words would change the course of women’s rights and begin the push for equal rights in both academics and athletics that are still ongoing to this day.  Passed...

Courtesy of Armando Yanez and Houston Athletics Helena Besovic, her life laid out a different blueprint than that of the traditional woman born and raised in the United States. A native of Sarajevo, Bosnia, Besovic,...

Courtesy of DePaul University Commemorating the 50th anniversary of Title IX, DePaul Athletics is highlighting the impact this historic, landmark federal legislation had on female students including Blue Demon student-athletes. The groundbreaking gender equity law...

1971 Joint Resolution of Congress Whereas, the women of the United States have been treated as second-class citizens and have not been entitled the full rights and privileges, public or private, legal or institutional, which...

NCAA member schools nominated 535 female student-athletes for the 2021 NCAA Woman of the Year award and 24 of those are tennis athletes. Established in 1991, the NCAA Woman of the Year award is rooted...

In honor of National Girls and Women in Sport Day, the ITA is featuring some of the outstanding women who make up college tennis. Kristina Minor competed for the University of Illinois for four...

Passed on June 23, 1972, Title IX of the Education Amendments holds that “no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits...