Break Point: Two Minnesota Athletes and the Road to Title IX Brenden Sheri
Break Point: Two Minnesota Athletes and the Road to Title IX Brenden Sheri How two teenage girls in Minnesota jump-started a revolution in high school athleticsPeggy Brenden, a senior, played tennis.…
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Break Point: Two Minnesota Athletes and the Road to Title IX Brenden Sheri
How two teenage girls in Minnesota jump-started a revolution in high school athleticsPeggy Brenden, a senior, played tennis. Toni St. All these two talented teenagers wanted was a chance to compete on their high school sports teams. Pierre, a junior, was a cross country runner and skier.
Break Point tells the story, for the first time, of how two teenagers took on the unequal system of high school athletics, setting a legal precedent for schools nationwide before the passage of Title IX.As Peggy's younger sister, author Sheri Brenden is uniquely positioned to convey the human drama of the case, the stakes, and the consequences for two young women facing the legal machinery of the state, in court and in school. But in Minnesota in 1972 the only way on the field with the boys ran through a federal court--so that was where the girls went. In an account that
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