Articles Tagged: Title IX 50th anniversary

Moment No. 23: After a 2019 season that left Hawkeyes “so frustrated,” Iowa field hockey found redemption in Chapel Hill, N.C., almost 18 months later.

Moment No. 24: Iowa women’s gymnastics won its first Big Ten title while also taking down the conference’s standard-bearer.

Moment No. 25: A “cold, rainy day” in 1991 turned into quite the celebratory day for Iowa women’s golf as the Hawkeyes won their first Big Ten title.

Moment No. 26: The Iowa City Community School District names its North Liberty elementary school after Title IX pioneer and former Iowa women’s athletics director Christine Grant.

Moment No. 27: Nan Doak-Davis became the first woman from the Iowa track and field program to win an NCAA championship in 1985.

Moment No. 28: Lisa Bluder has a “magical” first season at Iowa, leading a group that won only nine games in 1999-00 to a Big Ten tournament title in 2000-01.

Moment No. 29: Tracy Dahl became the first woman from the Iowa track and field program to win back-to-back NCAA titles.

Moment No. 30: Kineke Alexander remembers “nobody expected me to win” the 400-meter race at the 2006 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships. She proved them wrong, by one-hundredth of a second.

Moment No. 31: Alexis (Maday) Packard “pretty much won like all the things that there were to win” during her time at Iowa from 2001-04.

Moment No. 32: Iowa field hockey won the Big Ten regular-season and tournament championships in the same season for the first time in program history.

Moment No. 33 in The Gazette’s 50 Iowa moments since Title IX series is Iowa softball’s return to the Women’s College World Series in 2001.

Moment No. 34: Even as Gary Barta saw “no path forward,” Iowa athletes found a path to save Iowa’s women’s swimming and diving program.

Moment No. 35: Laulauga Tausaga becomes Iowa track and field’s first NCAA champion in a throwing event in 2019.

Moment No. 36 in The Gazette’s 50 Iowa moments since Title IX series is Iowa naming its field hockey venue after Title IX pioneer Christine Grant.

Moment No. 37 in The Gazette’s 50 Iowa moments since Title IX series is Jenny Spangler and Loredana Zisu becoming the first women in their respective programs’ history to go to the Olympics.