I was a victim of pre-Title IX discrimination, and I'm fighting to protect girls' sports
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I was one of the last victims of pre-Title IX discrimination, but now, female athletes are experiencing a different kind of injustice.
Debbie Millbern Powers, author of "Meeting Her Match: The Story of a Female Athlete-Coach Before and After Title IX," is a former athlete, coach, and referee.
In college, I played basketball at Indiana University from 1969-1973, plus softball and field hockey for two of those years. I was captain and leading scorer of the 1973 basketball team, leading my teammates to the Final Four in the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (precursor to the NCAA).
But in those days, women were not allowed to play in the same arena as men, and there were no female scholarships. At away games, women slept in sleeping bags while men slept in hotels. The local newspaper relegated coverage of our team to the "Women’s" section alongside engagement announcements and recipes: "Come out and watch the prettiest co-eds on campus go against the purse-carrying Purdue Boilermakers."
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