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A Place on the Team: The Triumph and Tragedy of Title IX (Princeton Paperbacks) Paperback – October 29, 2006

by Welch Suggs (Author)
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A Place on the Team is the inside story of how Title IX revolutionized American sports. The federal law guaranteeing women's rights in education, Title IX opened gymnasiums and playing fields to millions of young women previously locked out. Journalist Welch Suggs chronicles both the law's successes and failures-the exciting opportunities for women as well as the commercial and recruiting pressures of modern-day athletics.


Enlivened with tales from Suggs's reportage, the book clears up the muddle of interpretation and opinion surrounding Title IX. It provides not only a lucid description of how courts and colleges have read (and misread) the law, but also compelling portraits of the people who made women's sports a vibrant feature of American life.


What's more, the book provides the first history of the law's evolution since its passage in 1972. Suggs details thirty years of struggles for equal rights on the playing field. Schools dragged their feet, offering token efforts for women and girls, until the courts made it clear that women had to be treated on par with men. Those decisions set the stage for some of the most celebrated moments in sports, such as the Women's World Cup in soccer and the Women's Final Four in NCAA basketball.


Title IX is not without its critics. Wrestlers and other male athletes say colleges have cut their teams to comply with the law, and Suggs tells their stories as well.


With the chronicles of Pat Summitt, Anson Dorrance, and others who shaped women's sports, A Place on the Team is a must-read not only for sports buffs but also for parents of every young woman who enters the arena of competitive sports.

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  7. ISBN-10
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"Finalist for the 2006 Billie Award in Journalism, Women's Sport Foundation"

"Honorable Mention for the 2006 Myers Outstanding Book Award"

"[A] must-read for any sports historian or female athlete interested in how the opportunities she so freely enjoys came about." ― Publishers Weekly

"Ultimately a gripping story of Title IX's triumph." ― Harvard Law Review

"Finally, a lucid, thorough and non-polemical accounting of Title IX's origins, development, and impact. Welch Suggs traces the women's sports revolution back to its roots in physical education, details Title IX's origins in civil rights law, and explains why the law has proven to be so resistant to legal challenge. He doesn't flinch from taking stock of the law's regrettable consequences. All future discussion of college sports and gender equity will begin with this book."---Alexander Wolff, Sports Illustrated

"Suggs provides brief histories of college sports, women's college sports administration, and civil rights legislation before wading into case law that Title IX begat. He makes sense of this convoluted, contentious journey through 2004 and fairly presents a range of feminist, conservative and libertarian viewpoints." ― Library Journal

"With A Place on the Team, Suggs has done a service to anyone who wants to understand the history of Title IX and the debates that continue to swirl around its implementation."---Michael A. Messner, Academe

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"Title IX is arguably one of the most important pieces of federal legislation affecting higher education in the past fifty years. Welch Suggs's A Place on the Team chronicles the history, legal interpretations, and battles surrounding Title IX and gender equity in intercollegiate athletics. It is an exceptionally well-written, well-researched, and balanced book that should be read by anyone interested in the present and future of college sports."―Myles Brand, President, the National Collegiate Athletic Association

"As someone who has coached girls and women at many different levels, I've seen the ways that Title IX has changed the landscape of athletics. A Place on the Team provides an engrossing and thorough look at how this legislation has affected and continues to shape women's sports."―Sylvia Hatchell, Head Coach, University of North Carolina Women's Basketball

"A Place On The Team is the definitive book on Title IX and will be required reading for every person―certainly for every coach, athletics department official, and university administrator―interested in the topic. Its presentation of the history is clear, cogent, and exhaustive."―Murray Sperber, Indiana University

"This book gathers in one place all the important information on historical, philosophical and legal aspects of women's sports. It enlivens this with interviews with the major players in the field and with real life stories that bring the major issues home to the reader. What's more, it recognizes the difficulties women's sports programs will continue to face as the cost of providing intercollegiate athletics rises."―Elsa Kircher Cole, General Counsel, National Collegiate Athletic Association

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0691128855
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Princeton University Press (October 29, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 296 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780691128856
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0691128856
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.75 x 8.75 inches
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Welch Suggs has been involved with college sports as an athlete, an administrator, and mostly as a journalist for more than 20 years. He teaches journalism at the University of Georgia and is involved in a new program in sportswriting and reporting.

Suggs graduated from Rhodes College cum laude in 1995 as a Walter D. Bellingrath Scholar. A track and cross-country runner at Rhodes, Suggs won four individual Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference titles and was a three-time team captain. He studied journalism at the University of Missouri at Columbia, where he worked as a graduate assistant in sports information.

After an internship covering the NCAA for The Kansas City Star, Suggs was hired by the Dallas Business Journal to cover sports and the energy industry and then transferred to Charlotte, where he covered college sports and arena development for Street & Smith s SportsBusiness Journal during its inaugural year.

In 1998, he moved to Washington, D.C., to cover college athletics for The Chronicle of Higher Education. He was promoted to senior editor of the athletics section in 2002. During his years at the Chronicle, he covered seven NCAA conventions, 10 Final Fours, and numerous scandals, crises, and cultural changes in college sports across the country.

In 2003, Suggs signed a contract with Princeton University Press to write the first definitive history and analysis of the impact of Title IX, the 1972 law guaranteeing educational equity, on college sports. In 2005, Princeton published A Place on the Team: the Triumph and Tragedy of Title IX, to critical acclaim.

Later that year, he left the Chronicle and began work on a Ph.D. at the University of Georgia's Institute of Higher Education. At the Knight Commission, he directed external relations, issues management, and the redesign of the Commission's web site. In 2007 he joined the UGA administration as Assistant to the President and liaised with the university Athletic Association, the NCAA and other groups on- and off-campus. In 2011, he joined the faculty of the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication and teaches writing, editing, and sports journalism.

Welch and Claire Suggs live in Athens, Georgia, with their daughter Molly and son Alex.

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  • J. Groethe
    5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it!
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    This is a great book on the history of women's collegiate athletics and Title IX. As a high school girls' basketball coach, I picked up this book out of curiosity. I figured that since the title captured both triumph and tragedy, it might give an unbiased look into Title IX. I think the author accomplishes that quite well. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and I have already referenced back to it multiple times.
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