This article is really great, it talks about two women in particular, Peg Rees and Pat Hoover, who were former athletes at the University of Oregon. The played there before Title IX went into affect and dealt with a lot unfair treatment that a lot of the college female athletes faced. Many of these issues we have discussed in class, such as: women athletes not having new uniforms, or their own uniforms or having to use the same uniforms for multiple sports, who Pat Hoover talked about. Also Hoover mentioned they had a specific hall for the women basketball team and weren't allowed to play on the court that the men's basketball team played on. They also didn't have much staff and had to bring their own supplies if they needed their ankles taped, and they had to tape their own ankles. They also had to bring their own lunches when the men got free lunches. Many of those women were not recognized like they should have been, many should have received letters.
what's great about this article is the University of Oregon has found most of the college women athletes and invited them to an event for them to be recognized now, since they weren't before. And coaches will also be recognized, like Peg Rees who played in the 1970s and is now a coach at OU. It's a two-day event, a banquet, where they will receive Oregon gear and nike bags and tours. They all will also receive a framed varsity letter. I think it's great for OU do this for these women, I think all the colleges should for these women athletes who were pre- title IX. These women deserve recognition for what they earned and all that they went through just because of their gender.

http://www.registerguard.com/web/newslocalnews/26208881-57/oregon-university-athletes-women-field.html.csp

Katherine Liberatore
KIN 338I, S4, Tu/Th 9:30-10:45am