"youth-athletics" Articles & Blogs:
This National Girls and Women in Sports Day, Urge Schools to Support Their Female Athletes
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by Neena Chaudhry, Senior Counsel, National Women’s Law Center
On February 3, 2010, join NWLC in celebrating National Girls and Women in Sports Day. On this day every year, advocates, students, and parents across the country show their support for wo...[Read on] |
Title IX: 38 Years Later
| by Kavitha Sivashanker, Fellow, National Women's Law Center
Today marks the 38th anniversary of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Title IX is a federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in all federally funded educational programs. It has op...[Read on] |
A Title IX Must-Read: Getting In the Game
| Hot off the press! Getting In the Game is a new book by Title IX expert Professor Debbie Brake from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. In the book, Brake examines how Title IX has affected and continues to affect many facets of college and scho...[Read on] |
Franken Introduces Student Non-Discrimination Act
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by Jesse Krohn, Intern, National Women's Law Center
Yesterday Senator Franken introduced the Student Non-Discrimination Act (SNDA), a bill that bans discrimination in public schools based on one’s actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender ident...[Read on] |
Against the odds: Girls in urban areas face unique challenges in playing sports
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.Katie Thomas has written two parts of a series for the New York Times looking at the unique challenges facing urban girls who want to play sports
Her first piece, about a middle school basketball team in Brooklyn, highlights challenges facing the gir...[Read on] |
National Women’s Law Center’s Blog to Rally for Girls’ Sports Day
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Are you a female athlete? Do you have a blog, Facebook or Twitter account? Do you have a great story about how sports positively impacts your life?
For the first time, the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) is hosting Blog to Rally for Girls’ Sport...[Read on] |
Champion of diversity and academic reform: NCAA President Myles Brand dies at 67
| Myles Brand, the first university president to head the NCAA and a champion of academic reform died Wednesday after battling pancreatic cancer this past year. Brand, a former Indiana University President, championed academic reform, fiscal responsibility ...[Read on] |
Parents, some advice: Three DIII athletes talk about youth sports (and, yeah, playing with boys)
| By Megan Wood
Documentary filmmaker Jenny Mackenzie’s film Kick Like a Girl conveys the empowering and enlightening experience when a soccer team of 8 and 9-year-old girls plays in the boys division — quite successfully. After Mackenzie’s visit to ...[Read on] |
Girls sports DO make money
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Contrary to popular belief, a new article in the NYTimes highlights a trend among youth sporting events--girls events tend to draw more crowds and bring in more revenue than boys events.
The article is comparing traveling teams and tournament sporting e...[Read on] |
An athlete who refuses to act her age
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Just because you grow up doesn’t mean you have to give up sports. Next weekend the 2009 World Masters Games kick off in Sydney (for those that don’t know, that’s a comp for athletes 40 years of age and older.)
One athlete preparing for the Ga...[Read on] |
A Title IX success story
| Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in all federally-funded education programs, and athletics programs signally, was enacted 38 years ago today. Never without its naysayers, Title IX has despite them been an unmitigated success. Though not the fi...[Read on] |
Iran’s girls’ soccer team back in Youth Olympics
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With this summer’s inaugural Youth Olympics fast approaching, there was one group of young women who were facing exclusion. That is until this week when FIFA said they will allow the Iranian girls soccer team to compete at the Games as long as their pl...[Read on] |
Delaware State violates Title IX with recent elimination of equestrian team
| Via Jarrett at HBCU Sports Blog, I learned that Delaware State University recently announced a decision to eliminate men's tennis and women's equestrian. The decision, which comes less than a year after announced elimination of the men's wrestling team, ...[Read on] |
Join the Women’s Sports Foundation in Washington
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February 3, 2010 marks the 24th annual celebration of National Girls and Women in Sports Day, a day to celebrate and promote girls’ and womens’ participation and excellence in sports.
NGWSD is marked annually with events around the country and on Cap...[Read on] |
Kim Gordon Watches Gossip Girl. You Got a Problem with That?
| Kim Gordon, on stage at the Apple Store SoHo. Photographs by Hamish Robertson. Last night, Kim Gordon sat in a Soho office, a blue silk dress grazing her knees. Her outfit, complete with elegant low black heels, seemed fit for a tea party, not a rock show...[Read on] |
Egyptian woman will make history at Youth Olympics
| By MICHAEL CASEY (AP) –
SINGAPORE — When Jihan El Midany leads the Egyptian delegation into Saturday's opening ceremony of the inaugural Youth Olympics, it will be a historic moment for her country.
The 18-year-old pentathlete will become the first ...[Read on] |
The End of An Era – It Takes A Team, Rest in Peace
| It is with sadness that I am passing on the news that the Women’s Sports Foundation has eliminated its initiative, It Takes A Team, effective at the end of January when my contract as director of ITAT expires. I’ve directed It Takes A Team for five ye...[Read on] |
Cheerleading one's way to compliance
| A short but somewhat informative article about the issues surrounding competitive cheerleading and its potential to resolve some schools' Title IX issues around opportunities. Appropriate given the recent attempt by Quinnipiac to earn compliance by cuttin...[Read on] |
St. Vincent’s coach Kristen Zawacki dies of apparent heart attack on Christmas
| From Saint Vincent College Athletics:
It is with great sadness that I share with you the tragic news of the death of Kristen Zawacki, associate athletic director and the first and only head coach of the Lady Bearcats. She died of natural causes due ...[Read on] |
Getting urban girls into the game: Dance first?
| By Lauren Taylor
It is the quiet story behind the high-profile victories of women’s athletics: After thirty years of Title IX, after the superstardom of Mia Hamm, Michelle Wie, and Venus Williams, even after the advocacy of groups like the Women’s ...[Read on] |
The history of women’s sports we’d rather forget (but shouldn’t)
| By Laura Pappano
Word last week that rare film footage of Babe Ruth had been discovered by a New Hampshire man among his grandfather’s home movies provided yet another opportunity to lovingly recall the delightful history of sport, in this case, baseba...[Read on] |
The Case of the Pink Hockey Gloves
| A couple years ago a student in my Psychology of Coaching class told me a story of a local youth hockey coach. This coach wanted to make his team of U12 boys “tougher.” To accomplish this goal, he decided to give the least tough skater on his team ...[Read on] |
How NOT to coach youth sports: A lesson from Minnesota
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Fellow WTS blogger, Nicole LaVoie, at One Sport Voice, writes about a recent youth soccer match in Minnesota:
The scene: Two Minnesota Thunder Academy (MTA) teams played each other in the State Cup final to see who would advance to the Regionals. The 1...[Read on] |
Translating Obama's (Socialist) Speech to Schoolchildren
| President Obama’s much-anticipated speech to America’s schoolchildren has come and gone. So in the end, was it in fact an attempt to brainwash the nation’s youth into becoming communists and/or Nazis, as many conservatives suggested it w...[Read on] |
Exclusive! Excerpts from the Indefinitely Suspended Sarah Palin Children’s Book
| Speaking Up: The Sarah Palin Story is (was?) a biography of its titular subject geared toward Christian youth. However, it has been suspended “indefinitely” by publisher Zondervan. According to the Associated Press, “Cheryl Lundberg, Zondervan's dir...[Read on] |
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