We wanted to hear from readers about who they thought deserved attention for their work in girls and women’s sports on the 50th anniversary of Title IX. Here's what they said.
was among the early fighters for girls opportunities in Illinois high school sports.
A talented swimmer, Bucha trained with the boys team under Hinsdale Central coach Don Watson but wanted to compete with them in meets. In the months before Title IX was signed into law, she filed a lawsuit against the Illinois High School Association to push for girls to be allowed to compete with boys in non-contact sports.Bucha went on to become an accomplished marathon swimmer who
Only a few of the hundreds of worthy Illinois high school coaches received recognition in our profiles, but longtime Chicago-area sportswriter Jack McCarthy believes former Mother McAuley volleyball coachMother McAuley volleyball coach Nancy Pedersen smiles after beating Lyons in her last home game on Oct. 20, 2004.
Women who worked in sports business or charities were not a big part of our profiles, unless they worked for one of the Chicago professional teams, like the Blackhawks’ Jaime Faulkner and the Bears’ Karen Murphy.Strasman grew up playing hockey in Skokie and went on to play at Yale and internationally. She now is theLazarus is the founder of, which helps promote healthy lifestyles for girls through sports and fitness via summer camps and school-year programs.
A couple of readers wrote to share their experiences of fighting for their place in sports, including former Morton West studentCollins said she covered a boys indoor track meet for her high school newspaper in 1965. She had to fight to have the article included on the sports page, and her adviser was going to publish it without her byline because she was a girl.After she insisted on a byline, it was published under the name B. Lukes.
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