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4/17/06

HISTORY OF WOMEN'S SPORTS AT SLU EXPLORED IN NEW BOOK

CANTON - A new book by a retired St. Lawrence University professor and coach explores the history of women's sports at the University over its 150-year history.

In conjunction with celebration of the University's Sesquicentennial, Professor Emerita of Sport and Leisure Studies Dotty Hall has written Women's Sports at St. Lawrence University: From Beginnings to Title IX. The book is available from St. Lawrence's Brewer Bookstore.

As she notes in her Foreword, the book begins with the establishment of a women's basketball club in 1894 and ends in 1974 when women's and men's athletics were merged into one department and the Education Amendments Act of 1972 ("Title IX") demanded a new approach to women's athletics. Hall portrays an 80-year period of growth, decline and recovery in women's athletics, setting the stage for the great expansion and achievements of the past 30 years.

Hall began her coaching and teaching career at St. Lawrence in 1966, serving continuously until her retirement in 2000. She was chair of the women's athletic department from 1968 until the women's and men's programs merged in 1974, serving from then until she announced her retirement as the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) women's senior administrator. She coached field hockey, women's tennis and women's lacrosse, and taught Sociology of Sport, Philosophy of Sport and Gender and Sport. Hall also taught in the University's First-Year Program.

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Athletics At St. Lawrence