June 23, 2012 - 11:14am
It was a very different world in women’s basketball that sweltering August day in 1970, two years before the adoption of Title IX, as I made my way across the Austin campus to what was then simply called the Women’s Gym to try out for the University of Texas women’s basketball team.
My “recruitment” process had consisted of a mimeographed notice tacked to the Kinsolving Dormitory bulletin board announcing team tryouts. That and a friend who asked, “Are you going? I’ll try out if you do.”
