A Place on the Team: The Triumph and Tragedy of Title IX
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"Title IX is arguably one of the most important pieces of federal legislation affecting higher education in the past fifty years. Welch Suggs's A Place on the Team chronicles the history, legal interpretations, and battles surrounding Title IX and gender equity in intercollegiate athletics. It is an exceptionally well-written, well-researched, and balanced book that should be read by anyone interested in the present and future of college sports."--Myles Brand, President, the National Collegiate Athletic Association"As someone who has coached girls and women at many different levels, I've seen the ways that Title IX has changed the landscape of athletics. A Place on the Team provides an engrossing and thorough look at how this legislation has affected and continues to shape women's sports."--Sylvia Hatchell, Head Coach, University of North Carolina Women's Basketball"A Place On The Team is the definitive book on Title IX and will be required reading for every person--certainly for every coach, athletics department official, and university administrator--interested in the topic. Its presentation of the history is clear, cogent, and exhaustive."--Murray Sperber, Indiana University"This book gathers in one place all the important information on historical, philosophical and legal aspects of women's sports. It enlivens this with interviews with the major players in the field and with real life stories that bring the major issues home to the reader. What's more, it recognizes the difficulties women's sports programs will continue to face as the cost of providing intercollegiate athletics rises."--Elsa Kircher Cole, General Counsel, National Collegiate Athletic Association Alexander Wolff - Sports Illustrated Finally, a lucid, thorough and non-polemical accounting of Title IX's origins, development, and impact. Welch Suggs traces the women's sports revolution back to its roots in physical education, details Title IX's origins in civil rights law, and explains why the law has proven to be so resistant to legal challenge. He doesn't flinch from taking stock of the law's regrettable consequences. All future discussion of college sports and gender equity will begin with this book.
Ch. 1The segregated history of college sports13Ch. 2A new paradigm of civil rights32Ch. 3Heroines as well as heroes45Ch. 4College sports and civil rights66Ch. 5Legal and logistical challenges81Ch. 6The first generation97Ch. 7A watershed moment105Ch. 8Clarifications amid controversy125Ch. 9Sports before college142Ch. 10The wrestlers' response153Ch. 11The tragedy175Ch. 12Triumph?188App. ATitle IX of the education amendments of 1972201App. BFounding members of the association for intercollegiate athletics for women205App. CDraft regulations for interscholastic and intercollegiate athletics (1974)208App. DFinal regulations concerning title IX and scholastic/collegiate sports (1975)210App. EProposed policy interpretation (1978)212App. FPolicy interpretation : title IX and intercollegiate athletics (1979)220App. GThe civil rights restoration act of 1987230App. HClarification of intercollegiate athletic policy guidance : the three-part test (1996)232App. IFurther clarification of intercollegiate athletics policy guidance regarding title IX compliance (2003)236
