Editor's note: June 23 is the 50th anniversary of historic Title IX legislation being passed. This is the second in a series of stories about its impact on the University of Wisconsin. You can read the first story here.
Title IX gave University of Wisconsin women’s athletes and administrators a legal backing for their pursuit of better opportunities as the teams started under the athletic department umbrella in 1974.
But equipment, facilities and funding continued to present challenges and reminders that achieving equity wasn’t going to be easy.
"We had to provide our own shoes," said Cindy Bremser, who came to UW for nursing but ended up as a track star who would compete in the 1984 Olympics.