Title IX was meant to bring gender equity in sports- did it for you?

[undeterred]

I was in high school in when Title IX was passed. Our boys cross country team won the state meet 4 years in a row and had a great coach. I and some other girls were feeling inspired by this, and we found a few phys ed teachers willing to coach us - just a club, nothing official. There was an indoor track, and our teachers asked the coach if we could use it sometime during the week- his answer was: before 5:30 am or after 10:00 pm. He had way too much power for us to do battle. I felt resigned to cheering for the boys- and I attended many sporting events, but I always felt a little cheated, and I've never been very athletic.

Years later I met someone who had also gone to my high school, a few years later. She told me that they did finally get girls track and cross country going and that her little sister had won an event at the state meet!

[Gormy Cuss]

1. Um, might want to fix the spelling of sports n/t

[undeterred]

3. what was I thinking?

:rofl: :blush: :rofl:

[loveable liberal]

2. title 9 is fantastic. I follow hockey and womens hockey is great!

we have mixed teams between the ages of 6 and 10, and most of the girls playing have better skills than the boys. U of M womens team won the ncaa championship again but got little play in the media, but its an excellent program!

[undeterred]

4. kick!

[ohio_liberal]

5. It didn't do much for me, unfortunately

I graduated in 1986 and I hadn't heard of Title IX at the time or I would've really been pissed. Most of my HS years I thought it was terribly unfair that there was a boys' football team, track/cross country, baseball, basketball, golf, and wrestling and all girls had was volleyball. Of course we could always be a cheerleader or join the band. The boys always had their equipment paid for by the school and a booster club and the girls had to literally stand in the streets with buckets and beg for money from passing motorists. I suppose the local girls have it much better now but they're still far from being equal. The school district raised money for a multi-million dollar fieldhouse for the football team recently and I still see girls with buckets in the middle of the street.

[AllegroRondo]

6. The downside of Title IX

is that many colleges are cancelling Men's sports programs.

Title IX requires equal spending for both mens and womens sports - which is a great thing compared to how little was spent on womens sports previously.

But for many colleges, mens football is THE cash cow. And it take a LOT of resources to keep it going. But in order to keep the funding equal, they have to cancel other mens sports, like gymnastics, swimming, and baseball.

[VelmaD]

7. Actually football is not a "cash cow"...

in the sense that it almost never makes money for a school. In fact only the top Division I colleges make money off football...it is a losing proposition financially at most schools. It does, however, eat up a lot of resources.

[AllegroRondo]

9. Wrong choice of words then

but schools will keep pumping money into football because it is so big. The alumni want it, the fans want it, it gets the school air time on national tv. And it eats up all the resources that could go to other sports.

[seabeyond]

8. i was a swimmer all my youth, was a high school swimteam

and we had a coach that expected demanded the same as the boys. and we got it. further we have a winning valley team most of my years in high school, and our school was proud of our accomplishment. i also received a swimming scholarship to cal poly san louis obispo. calif, late 70's. so yes i benefitted from the title. cakif schools, or ours anyway took it seriously