<p>This chapter flips the script and turns the spotlight on two-time track and field Olympian, 1989 UT alumna, and IX at 50 co-host LaVonna Martin Floreal. For LaVonna, her time at UT helped enable her NCAA and Olympic dreams, including a silver medal at the 1992 Barcelona Games. But it also reinforced how sports can empower women worldwide, to discover different places and people. </p>

This chapter flips the script and turns the spotlight on two-time track and field Olympian, 1989 UT alumna, and IX at 50 co-host LaVonna Martin Floreal. For LaVonna, her time at UT helped enable her NCAA and Olympic dreams, including a silver medal at the 1992 Barcelona Games. But it also reinforced how sports can empower women worldwide, to discover different places and people.

<p>This chapter flips the script and turns the spotlight on two-time track and field Olympian, 1989 UT alumna, and IX at 50 co-host LaVonna Martin Floreal. For LaVonna, her time at UT helped enable her NCAA and Olympic dreams, including a silver medal at the 1992 Barcelona Games. But it also reinforced how sports can empower women worldwide, to discover different places and people.&nbsp;</p>

Champion on the Track and in eLife: LaVonna Martin Floreal

IX at 50: The Lady Vols Experience is an oral history that celebrates the work of legendary UT Coach Pat Summitt and the  UT Women’s Athletics family in working towards greater equality for all women and girls, no matter where they were born.Each episode, co-hosted by Dr. Sarah J. Hillyer, founder of the Center for Sport, Peace, and Society, and Olympian LaVonna Martin Floreal (Class of 1989), will unpack how this UT story is also a global one, thanks to the careers and experiences of Lady Vol athletes, coaches, and administrators, and what the present-day implications are of UT’s unique role in Title IX’s global effect.

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IX at 50: The Lady Vols Experience is an oral history that celebrates the work of legendary UT Coach Pat Summitt and the UT Women’s Athletics family in working towards greater equality for all women and girls, no matter where they were born.Each episode, co-hosted by Dr. Sarah J. Hillyer, founder of the Center for Sport, Peace, and Society, and Olympian LaVonna Martin Floreal (Class of 1989), will unpack how this UT story is also a global one, thanks to the careers and experiences of Lady Vol athletes, coaches, and administrators, and what the present-day implications are of UT’s unique role in Title IX’s global effect.

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