Title Ix Quotes

“What I hadn't expected was to be blindsided by a history lesson that betrayed every hard-won experience I'd had as a player and now a coach at the same school I'd attended. . . Whoever was responsible for sending a championship team into virtual obscurity was either a serious egomaniac or just plain mean. It stung.

After all, wasn't the story told at today's funeral the stuff of legacies? Of school lore passed on to the next class, and the next, building institutional pride as well as magical identities that made every kid in the state want to play there?”
― Jo Kadlecek, When Girls Became Lions

“Armed with 1,200 pages of evidence of sex discrimination complied by Dr. Sandler, but concerned that the ERA might be a NO, they pushed for something "smaller": the 37 words of Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972.
No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.”
― Kelcey Parker Ervick, The Keeper: Soccer, Me, and the Law That Changed Women's Lives