Mawson's mission : launching women's intercollegiate atheletics at the University of Kansas / Lora Marlene Mawson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mawson, Lora Marlene, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women atheletics--Kansas--Lawrence--History.

Women atheletics.

College sports for women--Kansas--Lawrence--History.

College sports for women.

Atheletic directors--Kansas--Lawrence--Biography.

Atheletic directors.

University of Kansas--Sports--History.

University of Kansas.

Mawson, Lora Marlene.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 339 pages) : illustrations ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2020]

Summary:

"Often called the "Mother of KU Women's Athletics," Marlene Mawson was appointed to the physical education faculty at the University of Kansas in 1968. A year later, the newly established national Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics for Women mandated that US colleges and universities provide women's intercollegiate athletics programs. Mawson was charged with establishing the program at KU. "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 were my responsibilities without much intervention or guidance from anyone else," she writes. "I was on my own, since there was no precedent nor a blueprint for creating a women's athletics program within a meager budget." Despite the challenges, in the first decade KU's were among the leading women's teams when they competed in national championships in volleyball, basketball, softball, and gymnastics. Mawson says, "my passion was always providing for the joy of women to compete in sports." She was inducted into the KU Athletics Hall of Fame in 2009. In this memoir, Mawson describes her remarkable career, from her early years in Missouri to her retirement in 2004. At the end of the book, she includes memories from early KU women athletes"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Center court

A half century of sports for women in America

Sport leadership experience

Formation of women's intercollegiate sports at KU

The first decade for KU women's intercollegiate sports

Early KU women atheletics on the national scene

Overarching regulations influencing women's intercollegiate atheletics

My interim year

Beyond atheletics : an academic career in sport management

The mission : a dream becomes reality

Appendix: Memories from early KU women atheletics.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Kansas Notable Book, 2021

ISBN:

0-7006-2974-2

OCLC:

1229125979