"I just wanted to play tennis”: Ellen Magliaro and Gender Discrimination in College Sports before Title IX"

Abstract

This paper is the result of a semester-long project in Professor Michele Rotunda’s Women in American History class at Union College. Rachel De La Cruz and Cayla Kerekgyarto served as the main writers, but all the following students in the class contributed to the research and first draft: Brian Abreu Castano, Kristen Camacho, Benjamin Castro, Carina De Simone, Lizbeth Gonzalez, Milena Guerra Gonzalez, Brianna Guzman, Stephanie Jaramillo, Olga Lopez, Shaylla Matos, Arianna Mesen, Veronica Mierzejewski, Daniela Mino-Lavariega, Andrea Murillo, Christina Sabat, Jaylenne Toro, Kiara Torres, and Victoria Valletutti. Special thanks to Sebastian Pereyra for discovering the case in the Union College Archives and to Professor Phillip Papas and Professor Rotunda for their valuable comments and suggestions.