Title IX Opened Up a Whole New World, On and Off Ice

Title IX went into effect. on June 23, 1972. A few years later when I was a college student in Oswego, N.Y., I saw an ad in the school paper recruiting female students to play ice hockey. The school had both men’s varsity and junior varsity teams, and to comply with Title IX they decided to eliminate the men’s junior varsity and add a women’s varsity team. It sounded like fun and I went and signed up.