<p>In this exciting chapter, Dr. Sarah and LaVonna welcome Olympic gold medalist and pioneering sports executive Benita Fitzgerald Mosley. An outdoor hurdles specialist, she became the first American woman to win gold in the 100-meter hurdles at the 1984 LA Games. While at UT, Benita shattered records left and right, winning titles and setting expectations higher for women’s track and field at UT and more broadly. </p>

In this exciting chapter, Dr. Sarah and LaVonna welcome Olympic gold medalist and pioneering sports executive Benita Fitzgerald Mosley. An outdoor hurdles specialist, she became the first American woman to win gold in the 100-meter hurdles at the 1984 LA Games. While at UT, Benita shattered records left and right, winning titles and setting expectations higher for women’s track and field at UT and more broadly.

<p>In this exciting chapter, Dr. Sarah and LaVonna welcome Olympic gold medalist and pioneering sports executive Benita Fitzgerald Mosley. An outdoor hurdles specialist, she became the first American woman to win gold in the 100-meter hurdles at the 1984 LA Games. While at UT, Benita shattered records left and right, winning titles and setting expectations higher for women’s track and field at UT and more broadly.&nbsp;</p>

Olympic Gold: Benita Fitzgerald Mosley

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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