Trimming the fat could cut down on Title IX blame game.(Sports)

From: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) | Date: June 27, 2002| Author: McGraw, Patricia Babcock | Copyright information

Byline: Patricia Babcock McGraw Daily Herald Sports Writer

Having grown up in a family that had four sports-oriented daughters, Terri Zemaitis-Boumans used to believe that Title IX was nothing but a good thing.

Title IX gave her sisters and her the opportunity to play high school sports. And it made it possible for her, the youngest of the four, to earn a full-ride volleyball scholarship to Penn State.

"Title IX meant a lot to me and my whole family...