Well said. I grew up around soccer but the girls in my family and extended weren’t offer the opportunity to do what the make family members could do. Yet, my nieces finally did and it makes my happy to know that my dad before he died loved to see his granddaughters play the sport that defined many moments in his life, including officiating a game that Pele played. Well done Steph C.
I certainly relate to this column. I, too, had dreams of being a sports writer, already in high school - several decades before you came to realize it wasn’t a “girls’ profession.” And, the only varsity sport for girls was tennis while the boys had multiple choices. So by the time Title IX passed I saw a breakthrough long in coming. I had a budding athletic daughter who thought 6-player girls basketball was silly, so we set about getting that changed to “real” basketball. Oh…that daughter became a soccer All-American and later became the college’s Sports Information Director. My dreams were just a bit too early!
Well said. I grew up around soccer but the girls in my family and extended weren’t offer the opportunity to do what the make family members could do. Yet, my nieces finally did and it makes my happy to know that my dad before he died loved to see his granddaughters play the sport that defined many moments in his life, including officiating a game that Pele played. Well done Steph C.
I certainly relate to this column. I, too, had dreams of being a sports writer, already in high school - several decades before you came to realize it wasn’t a “girls’ profession.” And, the only varsity sport for girls was tennis while the boys had multiple choices. So by the time Title IX passed I saw a breakthrough long in coming. I had a budding athletic daughter who thought 6-player girls basketball was silly, so we set about getting that changed to “real” basketball. Oh…that daughter became a soccer All-American and later became the college’s Sports Information Director. My dreams were just a bit too early!
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