Mawson's Mission: Launching Women's Intercollegiate Athletics at the University

Description: Mawson's Mission by Marlene Mawson Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Describes Marlene Mawsons remarkable career, from her early years in Missouri to her retirement. With behind-the-scenes views and insights that reflect a lifetimes experience, her memoir weaves together the history of womens athletics at the University of Kansas and the story of the birth of womens intercollegiate athletics across America. Publisher Description Before 1968, womens athletics in higher education meant playdays and sports days. That spring, when the National Division of Girls and Women in Sports announced that national collegiate sports championships for women would begin in 1969, Marlene Mawson, a new hire on the physical education faculty at the University of Kansas, was charged with establishing a womens athletics program. I was on my own, Mawson recalls, because there was no precedent for creating a womens athletics program with a meager budget. That meant planning sports competition schedules, staffing coaches, organizing policies and procedures for coaches and athletes, coordinating practice schedules, budgeting, and directing the new KU intercollegiate sports program for women without intervention or guidance. In their first decade, KU womens teams competed in national championships in volleyball, basketball, softball, and gymnastics.In this book, Mawson, who was inducted into the KU Athletics Hall of Fame in 2009, describes her remarkable career, from her early years in Missouri to her retirement. With behind-the-scenes views and insights that reflect a lifetimes experience, her memoir weaves together the history of the development of womens athletics at the University of Kansas and the story of the birth of womens intercollegiate athletics across the United States - from the Olympic Development Committee to Title IX to the NCAA. It is an engaging account of groundbreaking personal achievement by a woman in the world of college sports, and a stirring record of an extraordinary but little-documented decade in the evolution of womens athletics. Author Biography At KU between 1973 and 1990, Marlene Mawson was coordinator of the undergraduate and graduate programs and assistant chair in the Department of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation. She is emeritus professor and was chair of the Department of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation at Illinois State University from 1990 to 2000. Details ISBN 0700629742 ISBN-13 9780700629749 Title Mawson's Mission Author Marlene Mawson Format Hardcover Year 2020 Pages 344 Publisher University Press of Kansas GE_Item_ID:129192414; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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