{"id":18045,"date":"2022-09-22T16:46:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T22:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=18045"},"modified":"2022-09-23T15:12:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T21:12:52","slug":"colorado-college-department-of-athletics-celebrates-50th-anniversary-of-title-ix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2022\/09\/colorado-college-department-of-athletics-celebrates-50th-anniversary-of-title-ix\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado College Department of Athletics Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Title IX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 23, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon signed Title IX into law. It states:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Colorado College Title IX Video\" width=\"651\" height=\"366\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KBiJEyvJGBU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Several key moments have influenced women\u2019s sports at Colorado College starting with a \u201cShower in Protest\u201d by female students in 1973 demanding locker room space for women in El Pomar Sports Center. Other historical moments include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Laura Golden served as women\u2019s basketball coach (1975-81) and co-director of athletics.<\/li>\n<li>Susan Ashley was the first female faculty athletic representative (1989).<\/li>\n<li>Julie Soriero served as the first female director of athletics (2000-01 interim; full time 2003-07).<\/li>\n<li>Women\u2019s soccer became a varsity sport in 1978.<\/li>\n<li>Vice President\/Director of Athletics Lesley Irvine (since 2019) has brought a championship culture to Colorado College.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 23, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon signed Title IX into law. It states: \u201cNo person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.\u201d Several key moments&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1496,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-18045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-2022","tag-athletics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18045"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18047,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18045\/revisions\/18047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}