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Lum, Lydia – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2008
This article features North Carolina State University's Kay Yow, a pioneer of collegiate women's sports. An Olympic gold medal champion whose entire coaching career has been spent in her home state of North Carolina, Yow has amassed a remarkable lifetime win-loss record of 729-337. She is one of only six coaches to have won at least 700 career…
Descriptors: Womens Athletics, Team Sports, Athletic Coaches, College Athletics
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Pelak, Cynthia Fabrizio – Sociology of Education, 2008
This research examines the phenomenon of sexist naming of women's athletic teams at four-year colleges and universities in the southern United States. Drawing on theoretical and methodological insights from feminist scholarship on gender and sports, gendered language, and intersecting systems of race and gender inequalities, the author analyzes…
Descriptors: College Athletics, Physical Activities, Females, Athletes