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Women-only pool sessions back in Australian community
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted May 20, 2009 at 1:39am

By Robert FedeleWOMEN-only swimming sessions will return to the Ascot Vale Leisure Centre after community support led to the YMCA-run centre successfully gaining an exemption from the Equal Opportunity Act.The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal h...more

Campaign against Saudi women working out
by After Atalanta
posted May 19, 2009 at 2:19pm

What had been passive (aggressive) resistance to women in Saudi Arabia working out has become a little more active.A campaign, currently in the form of posters, has appeared in the capital of Riyadh that is discouraging of women working out in sports club...more

Indiana girls may try out for baseball
by Title IX Blog
posted May 19, 2009 at 1:27pm

Earlier this month, the Indiana High School Athletic Association voted unanimously to make permanent its executive board's emergency ruling (see also here) issued in February that would allow girls to try out for baseball, even if they attend schools that...more

News-y things: Title IX, WPS, cycling & more
by After Atalanta
posted May 19, 2009 at 12:05am

I don't know what my problem is with finding things to blog about lately. But I am headed to s different country later this week so hopefully that will provide some information.It's not as if there has not been things going on. After all, the women's coll...more

(Video) Christiane Amanpour on the importance of women in sport
by ...Because I Played Sports
posted May 18, 2009 at 1:46pm

Below is a video - created and distributed by the Women’s Sports Foundation (WSF) - of Christiane Amanpour, CNN Chief International Correspondent, on the importance of sport in the lives of women and girls. It is vitally important that those in the pub...more

Breaking into the Sports Management World
by Athletic Women Blog
posted May 18, 2009 at 12:25pm

Note: Today you are blessed with a stay of sorts, a guest blogger. Enjoy!—Rob In the past decade, women in sports jobs have increased their prominence in the sports world, slowly overtaking various obstacles to get where they are at today. Many sports...more

Nicholls State cuts women's golf
by Title IX Blog
posted May 18, 2009 at 10:33am

Down in Louisiana where state budget issues are forcing cuts in state institutions (familiar story by now) Nicholls State has dropped its women's golf team. The school is now down to 14 teams, the minimum number it can field and still be eligible for DI s...more

Wash. State's Fair Play law: Every victory counts
by Athletic Women Blog
posted May 15, 2009 at 3:27pm

This was sent in the other day; a victory worth savoring, even if you don't live in Washington State: Women’s Sports Foundation and ACLU Hail Signing of “Fair Play” Bill Washington State Gov. Chris Gregoire signed into law the “Fair Play” bi...more

Does sex sell women's sport? (and is it worth the trouble to find out?)
by Athletic Women Blog
posted May 14, 2009 at 7:22pm

Originally, I had tried to put down some thoughts so I could comment on a post at WTS. But they have grown too numerous for a comment, apparently, so I share them here. (Note: You may want to listen to the interview before reading on.) In the interview, ...more

Roster doctoring confirmed at QU
by Title IX Blog
posted May 14, 2009 at 12:08pm

Yesterday in a court in Connecticut where the coach and members of the Quinnipiac women's volleyball team are trying to get an injunction against the school that would prevent administration from cutting the team until all legal issues are resolved, the Q...more

There’s a Title IX Game Being Played (and it’s NOT helping female athletes)
by Fair Game News
posted May 13, 2009 at 11:12pm

By Laura Pappano Whether or not a judge rules that Quinnipiac University has violated Title IX by cutting its Women’s Volleyball team is less newsworthy than what we learned in court today. That is, coaches manipulated rosters to meet Title IX require...more

Does sex sell women’s sport?
by One Sport Voice
posted May 13, 2009 at 5:58pm

I’ve been wanting to write a blog about this topic for awhile and a recent interview given by my colleague and the Director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport Professor Mary Jo Kane on the Edge of Sports Radio with Dave Zirin ...more

Softball’s commitment to youth and peace underlined at IOC forum
by Women's Sports Nation
posted May 13, 2009 at 9:53am

ISF President: “Softball has always been a vehicle for creating sustainable change in society”Re-establishing Olympic Games Programme status will further strengthen softball’s global reputation for building peace through sport in conflict zones, ac...more

College Volleyball: Evidence presented in Quinnipiac case
by Title IX Blog
posted May 13, 2009 at 12:05am

A sort of PS to yesterday's post about the beginning of the women's volleyball team's attempt to get their sport reinstated at Quinnipiac University.Coach Robin Sparks testified yesterday that the athletic department had engaged in some doctoring of team ...more

Waiting at the top of a steep slope...
by After Atalanta
posted May 12, 2009 at 10:41am

...or waiting for a court decision. Which is scarier if you are a female ski jumper? Probably the latter. The female jumpers that sued the Vancouver Olympic Committee in an attempt to gain entry into the 2010 games are now waiting for a decision from a ju...more

Coed Softball Rules: Institutionalized Sexism
by Fair Game News
posted May 11, 2009 at 5:33pm

By Laura Pappano The 2009 recreational co-ed softball season is well underway – and so are sexist practices. Why do organizers assume that female players are – by dint of being female – inferior players? Planet Social Sports — which organizes re...more

In Turkey, women playing soccer vie for acceptance
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted May 10, 2009 at 12:54pm

ISTANBUL — On a recent cold, gray Sunday, two Turkish premier league soccer teams enthusiastically ran onto the field of a small stadium on the outskirts of Istanbul.Turks are soccer mad, with games regularly attended by tens of thousands of boisterous ...more

Three years, three complaints
by Title IX Blog
posted May 7, 2009 at 10:56pm

I think repeat offender status can officially be placed on Darien High School in Connecticut which, this past week, was the subject of a third complaint (in as many years) to OCR regarding Title IX compliance. This complaint is being filed on behalf of al...more

Head Wall Ouch
by After Atalanta
posted May 6, 2009 at 11:31am

The NCAA's announcement that sand volleyball (we all know it as beach volleyball) will become the latest "emerging sport" has generated some news. Several schools are actively considering the addition which is being touted as cheap and fairly easy to impl...more

The “success” of Twitter in promoting women’s sports: ‘Show me the money!’
by One Sport Voice
posted May 5, 2009 at 7:12pm

There seems to be much discussion over Twitter and how it might be “the answer” to successfully marketing and promoting women’s sports. Jayda Evans (Seattle Times columnist & Twitter-er) wrote about it, the Women’s Professional...more

Women's Sports: What's wrong with being a cause?
by After Atalanta
posted May 5, 2009 at 1:34pm

Almost passed over yet another article about the bad economy and the effects on women's sports. You know, the one that invokes almost immediately the folding of the Houston Comets and the shaky pitch the WPS finds itself on.Though much later in the articl...more

NYT addresses athletic department cuts
by Title IX Blog
posted May 4, 2009 at 8:32pm

This weekend's NYT had an article on the spate of recent athletic department cuts including the many teams that have been lost to the economic recession.But the effects go beyond the athletes and coaches of the cut teams. The article predicts that the cut...more

College Sports: University of Washington cuts swimming
by Title IX Blog
posted May 4, 2009 at 1:56pm

University of Washington, experiencing a budget shortfall similar to many--if not most--universities these days, has made the difficult decision to cut its men's and women's swim teams. The cuts were a surprise, especially given the recent growing success...more

Adding lacrosse because they can?
by Title IX Blog
posted May 4, 2009 at 10:56am

Pleased as we are to see schools that have the ability to add sports at this particular moment in our economic climate, the addition of men's lacrosse at Aurora University in Illinois is a little curious. Seems that they have an underused and quite expens...more

Pakistan women’s hockey on verge of collapse: sources
by Muslim Women in Sports
posted May 2, 2009 at 10:46am

LAHORE: Politics and vested interests of individuals have brought Pakistan women’s hockey on the brink of calamity, sources told Daily Times Friday on the condition of anonymity. “Ever since present Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) women wing’s gene...more

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