Category: Original

This is the ninth story in the SLR Original series on Title IX  (See previous) Like Elwood and myself, former WNBA guard Vicky Bullett grew up in a post-Title IX sports environment, and turned it into a sporting life many of us would have dreamed of. I was raised Seventh-day Adventist, so I never asked…

This is the eighth story in the SLR Original series on Title IX  (See previous) Angie Elwood (at the time, she was Angie Little) was my classmate at Piedmont High School in Monroe, N.C., in the early 1980s. She played seemingly every sport there was, and was a strong student. We had a class or…

This is the seventh story in the SLR Original series on Title IX  (See previous)   In my years at the Charlotte Observer, I’ve run into many characters, but few have the presence of Marjo Rankin. I was 5’11” at age 14, and people on the shorter end of the spectrum still sometimes make me…

This is the sixth story in the SLR Original series on Title IX  (See previous) Way before my days of tackle football and slow-pitch softball, as a kid, I heard stories of my mom playing basketball in junior high. It was the late 50s and early 60s, but I didn’t understand that there was no…

This is the fifth story in the SLR Original series on Title IX  (See previous) Another key Carolinian leader in the first wave of post-Title IX women’s sports was Vicki Hamilton.  She was a partner in crime of Judy Rose, who sent me to Hamilton as I continued to follow the trail of Title IX…

 This is the fourth story in the SLR Original series on Title IX  (See previous) Since I arrived at UNC Charlotte in 1984 as a student, I’ve been associated with the university one way or another, completing three degrees and teaching there starting in 2002. So when I got started on this project, Judy Rose,…