What is Title IX? Title IX “prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs receiving Federal financial assistance. Athletics are considered apart of an institution’s education program and are therefore covered by this law. Although Title IX protects college athletes, it does more harm than good.

There are some frustrations when it comes to Title IX. For one of my Sport Administration classes I took this past spring, I had to read an article about Title IX. In the article, a mother was frustrated because her son’s cross country team was getting cut due to budgeting reasons. The team was also being cut because a women’s sports team was being added. This upset the mother and was going on about how Title IX hurts men’s sports more than it does women’s sports. But that is not the case. Another frustration when it comes to Title IX according to NSCA, “although women in division I colleges are 53 percent of the student body, they receive only 41 percent of the opportunities to play sports, 36 percent of overall athletic operating budgets, and 32 percent of the dollars spend to recruit new athletes.”

A solution to this problem is to give equal opportunity for women’s sports. They are already under represented enough in college athletics. It is time for this to no longer be a problem.

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