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Laura Blears Ching is the first woman to surf against men. Boston Marathon changes its rules after Title 9 which allows Ching to race against men in a Hawaii meet.
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Ann Meyers was the first high school student to make the womens national basketball team. After highschool she was the first to get a full athletic scholorship to UCLA.
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Lucy was the first woman in the US to win the Womens Bowling World Cup. She won with a 620 in a 3-round game.
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Mary Meagher sets the world record in 100m butterfly with a time of 57.93 in Brown Deer, WI.
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Georgeann Wells-Blackwell, a 6-7 center from Columbus, Ohio, is the first woman to dunk a basketball in a college game. The game was verse Charleston, NC.
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The first Womens Professional Volleyball event was held in Newport Beach, CA.
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The women's Final Four of college basketball is televised live for the first time. Tennesse beats Virginia 70-67 for its third NCAA title in the first OT game in the tournament's 10-year history.
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Minnesota is the first state in the US to have their state athletic association (MN State High School League) sanction high school girls ice hockey.
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The US national team wins the Women's World Cup with one perfectly timed save and five perfectly placed penalty kicks. The U.S. Women's World Cup team wins back the World Cup trophy in front of 90,185 fans in Pasadena and a world-wide television audience of an estimated 40 million. With the score still being tied 0-0 after the game and two periods of overtime the American women beat the China team 5-4 on penalty kicks.
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Hayley Wickenheiser is the first woman to score a goal on a mens team in hockey. She was playing for Kirkkonummen Salamat. Playing for that Mens Pro team, in the season she played in 23 games, had 2 goals, and 10 assists. She would be the first to do this on a mens team.
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Jennie Finch won her first gold medal in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. She said she felt honored to play in the Olympics because of Title 9.
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The NCAA has set up a task force to allow women as well as minorities to be included in coaching and administrative staff. This is an improvement because before this, 90% of men and 60% of womens sports teams were caoched by white men.
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Mackenzie Brown becomes the first girl in Bayonne Little League history to throw a perfect game against 18 boy batters she faced. Even though it is little league, this shows that Title 9 is effective still and even more because a young girl pitches against boys.
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The 40th anniversary of Title 9. "Title IX was the second-most important piece of civil rights legislation passed in this country," said Debbie Yow, athletic director at North Carolina State. "Had it not passed, the options and opportunities for women in this country and the world would be vastly different."
