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ISU to celebrate Title IX's 45-year anniversary on social media

NORMAL — Imagine being a college athlete and asked to share your uniform with a couple other sports at your school. Never happen, right?

Let Wendy Smith tell you about her softball days for Illinois State.

"When I came to ISU in 1977, back then I remember the varsity teams for volleyball, basketball and softball all wore the same uniforms," said Smith, who is now University High School's athletic director. "There was all one set of uniforms for three different varsity sports.

"Think of where we are right now with everything. We have practice clothes and all of this (other stuff).