The Mount Celebrates 50 years of Title IX

No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.

These words capture the essence of Title IX which was signed by President Richard Nixon on June 23, 1972 and for the past 50 years has been the law of the land.

Some history of TITLE IX and TITLE IX at The Mount

The original legislation was championed by Edith Green and Patsy Mink in the House of Representatives as well as Birch Bayh in the Senate.
While Title IX never specifically references the world of athletics, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare determined that because educational instititutions do receive federal funding all aspects of the institution must adhere to the rules of Title IX.
Prior to the implementation of Title IX, the NCAA did not hold championships for women's sports. During that period of time women's collegiate athletics were administered by the AIAW (Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women). The first NCAA sponsored championships were held in 1982.
Founded in 1920, Mount St. Joseph University was a women's college for the first 64 years of it's history. Becoming fully co-educational in 1986 when the first class of men were enrolled.
With the Mount's history as a women's college the early years of athletics at the institution were exclusively women's sports. And over the more than 50 years of intercollegiate women's athletics the Mount has had some special teams, student-athletes, coaches and administrators.
Director of Athletics Melanee Wagener, herself a former Division I women's basketball player at the University of Virginia is the latest in a long line of female administrators at the Mount. The names that came before her include MSJ Hall of Famers and legends such as Kay Corcoran, Pat Shibinski and Jean Dowell.
Currently Mount St. Joseph sponsors 11 women's sports, and nearly 100 female student athletes.

Over the course of the next year The Mount will take time to celebrate women and women's teams who embody everything Title IX meant to back in 1972 and still does today.

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Some history of TITLE IX and TITLE IX at The Mount

The original legislation was championed by Edith Green and Patsy Mink in the House of Representatives as well as Birch Bayh in the Senate.

While Title IX never specifically references the world of athletics, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare determined that because educational instititutions do receive federal funding all aspects of the institution must adhere to the rules of Title IX.

Prior to the implementation of Title IX, the NCAA did not hold championships for women's sports. During that period of time women's collegiate athletics were administered by the AIAW (Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women). The first NCAA sponsored championships were held in 1982.

Founded in 1920, Mount St. Joseph University was a women's college for the first 64 years of it's history. Becoming fully co-educational in 1986 when the first class of men were enrolled.

With the Mount's history as a women's college the early years of athletics at the institution were exclusively women's sports. And over the more than 50 years of intercollegiate women's athletics the Mount has had some special teams, student-athletes, coaches and administrators.

Currently Mount St. Joseph sponsors 11 women's sports, and nearly 100 female student athletes.

Over the course of the next year The Mount will take time to celebrate women and women's teams who embody everything Title IX meant to back in 1972 and still does today.

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