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Page 6 P o rtlan d O bserver, Ju ly 28, 1982 Despite E R A demise: Ds/n automotive ★ Summer Special ★ Women win sports revolution in sports by Barbara Miner Pacific News Service A m arathon-running nun? The sight would have been all but un thinkable a few years back. But not only does Sister M arion Irvine o f San Rafael, Ca., don running shoes regularly, she also holds the world’s marathon record fo r women over 50. The magazine Running Times has named her Runner o f the Year in her age division. Cheryl M iller, 18, is also breaking new ground. The high school senior from Riverside, Ca., last year be came the only woman known to have slam-dunked a basketball dur ing a game. E arlie r this year she scored 105 points in one tilt—a feat all the more impressive because a girls* high school game is only 32 minutes long. The most sought-after woman athlete ever, Miller has been called the Kareem Abdul Jabbar o f women’s basketball. A decade ago Sister Irvine prob ably would not have been running marathons, not because she’s a nun, but because the American Athletic Union and other sport groups didn’t then allow women to run more than 10 miles—it was thought the stress would harm them physically. Today women are entering marathons in record numbers and the Internation al Olympic Committee has included a women’ s marathon fo r the 1984 Olympics. A decade ago colleges would not have been wooing M ille r, because the first women’ s athletic scholar ships for women, worth a total o f $7 million. Marathons and scholarships are only two aspects o f the revolution in women’ s sports. During the last dec ade, women have demanded and won the ir place in sports on an unprecendented scale. "T h e re ’ s been an explosion, no doubt about it,” says Jennifer Nupp o f the W ashington, D.C.-based SPRINT, a lobbying and inform a tio na l organization dedicated to women’s equality in sport. Sears What’s more, the sports crusaders really make active-wear for women. stress, the revolution is hert to stay. You had to buy almost everything in "Fitness is such a part o f the Amer the men's or boys’ department.” ican experience,” says Nupp, "th a t Activists can’t pin down any one women are not going to give up on factor to account for the fantastic that. It's just not going to change." rise in women’ s sports, but several Eva Auchincloss, executive direc themes emerge. One o f the strongest tor o f the California-based W om reasons, they say, is that women en’ s Sports Foundation (W SF), themselves wanted to become in strongly agrees. "W om en ’ s sports volved. "Schools were more sensi will never go back to the way it was tive to having women in s p o rts ," in the 1950s,” she says. "T h e mo says Ruth Berkey, head o f women’s mentum is too great.” sports fo r the N ational Collegiate WSF was founded in 1976 by pro Athletic Association, “ but the inter fessional and amateur women ath est was already there on the part o f letes and has played an important women.” role. Its magazine, W omen’s Carol Thompson, head o f the Na Sports, has grown from a 1978 cir tio na l Association fo r G irls and cu lation o f 30,000 to more than Women in Sports, also credits Presi 125,000 today. dent Kennedy’s Council on Physical The strength o f women’s sports is Fitness and the boom it helped gen evident even in once taboo areas. erate. A nd, like others, she says The firs t W omen’ s N ational Title IX "obviously comes forward W eightlifting Championships were as a reason.” (T itle IX , a 1972 held in Iowa last year; the Amateur amendment to the Higher Educa Hockey Association says thousands tion A ct, prohibits sex discrim ina o f women now play on ice hockey tion in all educational institutions teams; and the L'.S. Soccer Federa receiving federal funds.) Women tion this year included young wom who had found locker room doors en on its Youth All-American team. closed now had a tool, and women’s SPRINT reports that 10 years ago sports took o ff. "T itle IX broke the only 7 per cent o f high-school ath barrier,” says Thompson. letes were women; today the figure Christine Grant, women’s athletic is over 35 per cent. Colleges show director at the University o f Iowa the same trend. and the former president o f the As The two most popular sports for sociation for Intercollegiate A thlet high school women are basketball ics for Women, calls Title IX "th e and track. In 1970, according to the fuse o f the entire explosion. It alert National Federation o f State High ed the nation to the fact that we School Associations, only 4,865 were discriminating against all our high schools offered women’ s young women.” basketball; today over 17,000 do. In Title IX sparked fierce opposition track the figure has jumped from among those who feared that foo t 2,992 in 19709 to nearly 14,000. ball teams would become coed or The revolution isn’ t lim ited to that women would want to share school or team activities. Across the locker rooms w ith men. The fears country women executives, house were unfounded. Today even the 75- wives and grandmothers are jo g year-old N C A A , which barred ging, playing tennis and swinging women u n til 1974, is embracing squash rackets as never before. women’ s sports. To take one indication: the publi But there are some threatening cation Sports Styles reports that storm clouds. In Congress the pro women now buy 43 per cent o f all posed Family Protection Act would active-wear and athletic shoes. “ Ten allow a local school system to pro years ago,” says Eva Auchincloss of hibit "th e intermingling o f sexes in WSF, “ manufacturers d idn’ t even any sports or other school-related a ctivitie s." And Sen. O rrin Hatch (R-Utah) has introduced an amend ment to restrict T itle IX require ments to programs directly receiving federal funds. Since few sports get direct funds, the proposal could have a significant impact if adopted. One step back has already been taken. The Reagan adm inistration unexpectedly decided in mid-March that T itle IX would not apply to schools where guaranteed student loans are the only form o f federal aid. As a result, some 300 colleges are now exempt. However, another gray area was resolved positively when the Su preme Court ruled that Title IX ap plies to school employees as well as students. The ru lin g w ill protect women coaches, who have often en joyed many fewer advantages than their male counterparts. Despite such problems, "m an y parties that were against women’ s athletics are now coming around,” says Nupp o f S PR IN T, w ith the N C A A a perfect example. " I t ’ s even w illing to spend profits from men’ s sports on women’s sports to get them started because they realize the profit-making potential o f wom en’s sports." Above all, women’s sports leaders emphasize, the gains o f a decade are now too firm ly ingrained, too much a part o f everyday life for any seri ous setbacks. 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