At colleges and universities across the nation, intercollegiate athletics is a key element of campus community. Almost since the first intercollegiate competition, athletic competition has brought students together as athletes and spectators in a manner different from the intellectual pursuits of the classroom, yet similar in embodying the core…

This updated second edition provides comprehensive and current information on women in sports, detailing the history, biography, bibliography, and statistics of female professional and amateur athletes. The book is divided into 4 parts with 6 chapters. Part 1, History of Women's Sports, presents: (1) Women in American Sports and (2) Women in the…

The papers collected here were prepared for the National Conference on Sports Programs for College Women, June 1969. The conference examined the current status and explored future directions of sports programs for college women. Topics include ethics and values; needs in relation to leadership, understanding interpretation, and cultural, social,…

This report provides norms on speed, strength, and anthropometric variables of college women volleyball players. (MM)

Despite the disagreements among personality theorists on methods of testing for masculine and feminine traits, recent investigations tend to support the belief that females who compete in athletics at a highly competitive level have more masculine traits than their nonathletic counterparts. To determine whether studies done on a regional basis can…

This document is a series of statements on procedures and policies of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW). The document is divided into two parts. Part one, National Championships Policies and Procedures, includes consideration of the following topics: eligibility for AIAW national championships; verification of…

This survey report focuses on sex differences in response to 11 attitude items concerning the female opportunity structure in sport, females in traditionally male sports, and sex role socialization in relation to sport. On all items, females were more accepting of women in sports than males were. (Author/SJL)

Discusses a Title IX action brought against Rhode Island's Brown University as a result of the university's demotion of two women's varsity teams to unfunded status. Reports that the court rejected Brown's argument that women are less interested in sports than men, ordering it to comply with the law. (AJL)

This document consists of the twelve consecutive numbers of the newsletter "Women in Education", published during 1998. This newsletter focus on issues concerned with women students, women faculty, and women administrators in higher education. Each issue includes feature articles, news items, and profiles of significant people. Feature…

Suggestions and guidelines for establishing rules for co-recreational intramural activities are presented. These rules are not intended as a precedent or a national standard--they are ideas for adapting standardized rules for men's and women's sports to meet the needs, demands, and characteristics of co-recreational sports. Eleven different…

Comparison of the dynamic visual acuity (DVA) scores of high-ability and low-ability female basketball players, and between these two groups and a group of female volleyball players, resulted in the conclusion that there were no differences in the mean DVA scores between any of the groups. (MB)

Socialization into sport has been viewed as a social learning process through which significant others teach, demonstrate, and reinforce sport roles and behaviors. This social learning paradigm has been synthesized into a social role-social systems approach which combines psychological and sociological indicators (family, peers, school,…

In this study comparing the knowledge and skill attained by university women in beginning tennis under three different time schedules, it was found that time schedules may not be as important as other factors in the learning and performance of tennis skills. (MM)

Study examined job satisfaction among male and female college coaches of women's teams. Coaches completed the Job Description Index and the Job in General Index to measure their job satisfaction and general feelings toward their jobs. Results indicated that both sexes had similar perceptions toward their jobs. (SM)