Title IX Definition and Effect on Me as an Athlete - Professor Mary Lloyd Ireland, MD

Title IX:
Definition and Effects on MLI as an Athlete
Mary Lloyd Ireland, M.D.
www.MaryLloydIreland.com
Girls can
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High School Sports: I did them all!
37 words Title IX
"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 educational program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance."
Boschert, 37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination Hardcover. The New Press (April 12, 2022)
Merriam Webster Dictionary Definition of Grit
- Firmness of mind or spirit:
• Unyielding courage in the face of hardship or danger managed to survive by his grit and guile
- Sand Gravel
- Any of Several Sandstones
- Capitalized: A Liberal In Canadian Politics
True Grit, 1969 - Girls Can Shoot!
Sports is a Positive Experience
GRIT
Ireland, ML. “Problems facing the female athlete,” in: Pearl, AJ. The athletic female.“ ‘Catch a rising star . . . Catch it if you can.’ These lines from a children’s song should encourage limitless but achievable goals for youngsters. As a child I was encouraged to play as hard and run as fast as I could. If I beat the boys, that was okay.”
1993, 11-18.
Sayre School, Class of 1970
Cheryl Combs Winner 100 Breast
Dan Lichty Coach MLI 8 records Why Not?
Title IX
Federally-Funded Schools
Do Not Discriminate on the Basis of Gender in the Provision of Any Educational Activity
Including Athletics
Olympic Trials 1972 and 1976
Made the Trials Not the Team. Goal Set Too Low!
Kornelia Ender, East Germany - Gold Medals
Mary Lloyd Ireland
Shirley Babashoff, USA No Medals Silver Medals
World University Games
Finally Made it to the Olympics Barcelona 1992
Then To the Bush White House 1992
If you work with young athletes, you must protect them
and yourself.
Take this test. I did.
www.edurisksolutions.org/learn-to-protect-children/