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Turn the World Orange for Pat
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In the 4 years I have lived in Knoxville, the only time I have seen so many people sporting orange is on football weekends.
Friday after work I was in Kroger, Cedar Bluff. After noticing how much orange was around, I purposely walked from one end of the store to the other end. Not one row was without orange on someone.
Knoxville wore orange proudly in remembrance of Pat Summitt
Friday after work I was in Kroger, Cedar Bluff. After noticing how much orange was around, I purposely walked from one end of the store to the other end. Not one row was without orange on someone.
Knoxville wore orange proudly in remembrance of Pat Summitt
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Wore mine back on Southwest Airlines, DEN-ATL-GSP.
I've posted this elsewhere, but most young women just don't know what it was like back then. Try being the best long-distance runner and kickball player in fifth grade, and being told that you can't be captain because you're a girl, and completely accepting this, because you can't imagine anything different.
Pat's efforts helped shatter the walls that kept girls and women from advancing in sports, and this helped women in broader areas of employment and just our general roles in the world. There's still a lot of work to be done, but the last fifty years have marked an incredible change in women's status in America.
RIP Pat.
I've posted this elsewhere, but most young women just don't know what it was like back then. Try being the best long-distance runner and kickball player in fifth grade, and being told that you can't be captain because you're a girl, and completely accepting this, because you can't imagine anything different.
Pat's efforts helped shatter the walls that kept girls and women from advancing in sports, and this helped women in broader areas of employment and just our general roles in the world. There's still a lot of work to be done, but the last fifty years have marked an incredible change in women's status in America.
RIP Pat.
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I was a pretty good baseball player. When I was 8 (1960)my dad had to break it to me that I would never be able to play Little League.
When I was in high school in AL, there were no girls' high school basketball teams. You could play intermurals. I was at the boys' high school basketball finals at the University of Alabama in 1969, and one of the dorm mothers made a comment on how she loved girls' basketball and I laughed out loud--who had ever heard of schools playing against other schools' girls in basketball?
When I was looking at colleges, I found I could not attend my father's alma mater, Duke, unless I was declaring as a nursing major. Many other schools were also closed off to me.
When I got married, we applied for a loan to buy a house (1974). The bank official asked me what kind of birth control we used!
That same year, I went to get hamburgers from the local pool hall. I was escorted out to the sidewalk, as "ladies are not allowed in here."
"You tell young people of today that, and they won't believe you." (Monty Python)
BUT...
Even since Title IX, in 1993 or so, Dan McGill, legendary University of Georgia men's tennis coach was quoted in the Athens paper as saying that the new tennis complex was for the MEN"s team; that the GIRLS could practice and have their games at the old complex.
At the high school my children attended, the boys' baseball field was on campus; the girls' softball field was at the bottom of the hill--they had to use the rec league fields.
BTW, like Pat, I was born in the summer of 1952. How things have changed, yet maybe not enough.
When I was in high school in AL, there were no girls' high school basketball teams. You could play intermurals. I was at the boys' high school basketball finals at the University of Alabama in 1969, and one of the dorm mothers made a comment on how she loved girls' basketball and I laughed out loud--who had ever heard of schools playing against other schools' girls in basketball?
When I was looking at colleges, I found I could not attend my father's alma mater, Duke, unless I was declaring as a nursing major. Many other schools were also closed off to me.
When I got married, we applied for a loan to buy a house (1974). The bank official asked me what kind of birth control we used!
That same year, I went to get hamburgers from the local pool hall. I was escorted out to the sidewalk, as "ladies are not allowed in here."
"You tell young people of today that, and they won't believe you." (Monty Python)
BUT...
Even since Title IX, in 1993 or so, Dan McGill, legendary University of Georgia men's tennis coach was quoted in the Athens paper as saying that the new tennis complex was for the MEN"s team; that the GIRLS could practice and have their games at the old complex.
At the high school my children attended, the boys' baseball field was on campus; the girls' softball field was at the bottom of the hill--they had to use the rec league fields.
BTW, like Pat, I was born in the summer of 1952. How things have changed, yet maybe not enough.
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I gravitated towards women's sports for a variety of reasons, but mainly because of my older sister. Donna died in 2008, and I miss her every day. She was the best softball player I ever saw. But like a lot of other women, she was born at a time when girls didn't play any kind of sports. But I guarantee you she was the first chosen at picnics and pick up games, boys or girls, it didn't matter.
The cry you just wait till Donna gets up to bat frequently reverberated across the playing field when I was growing up.
When Donna was about 45 she had a daughter that was about 16. There was a pickup softball game being put together at some kind of reunion. Some of the guys hollered for Donna to come and play. Donna's daughter just hooted and laughed. Mama can't play softball she cried. Prior to that denunciation by her own daughter Donna probably had no intentions of actually playing in the game. But she got up from her lawn chair went out onto the field and began to play. Her first time up to bat she socked a home run that went probably 180 feet. The astonished look on Donna's daughter's face was priceless.
There was no justification for my sister being barred from playing organized sports in school just because of her gender.. she had the skill, the talent, and the athletic ability.
I love you Sis and if you were born today you would get that college scholarship.
The cry you just wait till Donna gets up to bat frequently reverberated across the playing field when I was growing up.
When Donna was about 45 she had a daughter that was about 16. There was a pickup softball game being put together at some kind of reunion. Some of the guys hollered for Donna to come and play. Donna's daughter just hooted and laughed. Mama can't play softball she cried. Prior to that denunciation by her own daughter Donna probably had no intentions of actually playing in the game. But she got up from her lawn chair went out onto the field and began to play. Her first time up to bat she socked a home run that went probably 180 feet. The astonished look on Donna's daughter's face was priceless.
There was no justification for my sister being barred from playing organized sports in school just because of her gender.. she had the skill, the talent, and the athletic ability.
I love you Sis and if you were born today you would get that college scholarship.
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