"The Fight for Recognition" : A Journalistic Look into the Inequities between Men's and Women's Sports within the NCAA

Abstract

The author presents an article on the impact of Title IX in college athletics, using interviews with three Kalamazoo College coaches: women’s basketball coach Jim Hess, women’s volleyball coach Jeanne Hess, and women’s swimming and diving coach Lynn Maurer. The author writes “When I set out to do a project in which a large chunk of my research would come from my interviews, I had one goal in mind. I wanted to find the personal stories so that not only I, but anyone who would read my project, could gather an understanding of what it might have been like to work around and experience sports when Title IX first began picking up ground. Here we are in 2022, 50 years following the implementation of the amendment, and we still have so much more room to grow within the sports world. That is exactly why I wanted to hear the personal stories of people who lived it so that future generations could also hear where we came from and why we don't want to return to it.”