<p>This chapter continues to lay foundations, as Dr. Sarah and LaVonna welcome Terry Crawford, the first national title winner for any Lady Vols athletic team. A track and field specialist, Terry blazed a path as UT women’s track coach in the 1970s and early 1980s, driving the team’s–and women’s sports at UT more broadly–growth in countless ways.</p>

This chapter continues to lay foundations, as Dr. Sarah and LaVonna welcome Terry Crawford, the first national title winner for any Lady Vols athletic team. A track and field specialist, Terry blazed a path as UT women’s track coach in the 1970s and early 1980s, driving the team’s–and women’s sports at UT more broadly–growth in countless ways.

The Foundational Track: Terry Crawford

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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