Post Title IX, SoCal women college athletes say inequality in sports continues

The gamers and coaches all wore T-shirts bearing the hashtags “Equality in Girls’s Sports activities” on the entrance and “We need to be right here” on the again.

“Selecting up the torch for anyone and talking out takes numerous braveness,” stated RCC ladies’s basketball head coach Alicia Berber. “I’m simply completely pleased with my workforce and the braveness that they’ve needed to converse on this concern.”

At concern, the workforce is shinning a lightweight on what they are saying are discrepancies with entry to the burden room and harassment they acquired from male athletes by demanding it.

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“This has been an ongoing drawback that I’ve seen my complete life that I really feel ought to have been modified by now. So, I actually need to pressure motion so it isn’t like this for the following technology or my youngsters,” stated workforce captain Elizabeth Lau.

The workforce penned an open letter to Riverside Group School management.

“If points are introduced ahead, we as an establishment will come collectively and we are going to work to resolve these points in a extremely optimistic means,” stated Riverside Group School District President Gregory Anderson.

Anderson stated the faculty is devoted to strengthening its dedication to Title IX.

“They’re brave to share their issues,” he stated.

Title IX requires academic establishments to offer equitable entry and sources to its female and male athletes.

Legendary Corridor of Fame basketball participant Cheryl Miller was in attendance to lend her assist to the workforce and spoke concerning the 1972 legislation’s impression on her and ladies athletes.

“Earlier than you nearly needed to undergo in silence after I was taking part in, however these younger girls they’ve a voice and they’re keen to boost it and converse up,” Miller stated.

The workforce’s outspokenness on the difficulty of fairness has gained consideration statewide. Throughout the California Group School Championship, gamers and coach requested Berber to ship them T-shirts.

She delivered 463, which the ultimate eight groups wore throughout their warmups.

“No person actually is aware of what Title IX is except one thing really occurs to them and it is delivered to the forefront,” Berber stated.

Whereas Title IX celebrates its fiftieth anniversary, Berber says extra nonetheless must be accomplished.

ABC Owned Tv Stations and ABC’s Localish current 50 inspiring tales from across the nation for Fifty/50, as a part of The Walt Disney Firm’s monumental initiative highlighting the fiftieth anniversary of the passing of Title IX, the federal civil rights legislation that prohibits sex-based discrimination in any academic establishment that receives federal funding, and gave ladies the equal alternative to play.

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