Title IX changed the world for female athletes

Seymour High School's first girls basketball uniforms were T-shirts and shorts bought off of the rack at K-Mart or Penney's. 50 years ago, women's sports were considered unwomanly and women didn't have many opportunities to play them. Title IX was enacted in 1972. Today, there are 3.24 million women playing high school and college sports. In 1971, the year prior to the enactment of Title VII, 295,000 girls played high schools varsity sports in the United States. Only 42% of college students were women. Jean Laupus, 68, a basketball teammate of Laskowski at Seymour High, believes that Title X is about equal rights.