Mawson's mission launching women's intercollegiate athletics at the University of Kansas /
"Often called the "Mother of KU Women's Athletics," Marlene Mawson was appointed to the physical education faculty at the University of Kansas in 1968. A year later, the newly established national Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics for Women mandated that US colleges and uni...
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| Language: | English |
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Lawrence, Kansas :
University Press of Kansas,
[2020]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1d5nkvv |
Table of Contents:
- Center court
- A half century of sports for women in America
- Sport leadership experience
- Formation of women's intercollegiate sports at KU
- The first decade for KU women's intercollegiate sports
- Early KU women athletes on the national scene
- Overarching regulations influencing women's intercollegiate athletics
- My interim year
- Beyond athletics : an academic career in sport management
- The mission : a dream becomes reality
- Appendix: Memories from early KU women athletes.