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UCLA Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Title IX with ‘Women of Westwood’

UCLA Athletics, Press Release

UCLA’s women’s athletics teams have lifted 56 national championship trophies, won 108 conference team championships, earned more than 1,000 All-America honors and produced hundreds of Olympians. Some of the greatest female athletes in the world started at UCLA, including Lisa Fernandez, Jackie Joyner-Kersee and Ann Meyers Drysdale. Today, there are more than 350 female student-athletes across 14 teams at UCLA.

Arguably, nothing has had a more positive impact for women in collegiate sports than the passage of Title IX, and this June 23, 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of the landmark legislation. To celebrate, UCLA is launching “Women of Westwood“. With moments in time throughout the 2022-23 academic year to celebrate UCLA’s female student-athletes, alumni and coaches, Women of Westwood will enhance educational and athletic-related resources at UCLA in support of the next generation of female leaders.

“Women of Westwood further demonstrates UCLA’s commitment to supporting and empowering female student-athletes to achieve their goals,” said Alice and Nahum Lainer Family Director of Athletics Martin Jarmond. “From our legendary alumni to our current student-athletes; when women are supported, everyone benefits.”

Alumni, fans and friends can show their support in a variety of ways throughout the year for “Women of Westwood,” including attending a competition, celebrating on social media and through philanthropic gifts. Financial support for Women of Westwood focuses on four areas:

  • The establishment of a new Women of Westwood endowment which in perpetuity will support operational expenses and enhancements across all 14 women’s sports offered at UCLA. This endowment will supply the UCLA Department of Intercollegiate Athletics with a perpetual source of income that provides the resources needed to attract, develop, and retain the nation’s most talented female student-athletes and coaches.
  • A focus on funding female student-athlete scholarships through establishing additional scholarship endowments. Attracting talented female student-athletes to UCLA is critical in order to build and sustain a world class women’s athletics program and nothing is more essential in attracting the best student-athletes than access to financial aid.
  • An effort to endow women’s coaching positions at UCLA. Coaches spend more time with UCLA student-athletes than any other member of the UCLA family, providing invaluable lessons in becoming champions in the classroom, in competition and in the community. Coaching endowments supplement sport-specific budgets and provide well-deserved, and much needed, support to the coaches leading our student-athletes.
  • Broad-based support from all alumni, fans and friends of UCLA Athletics’ in support of female student-athletes and the 14 women’s programs with gifts of any amount given directly to a women’s sport at UCLA. Gifts to one of UCLA’s women’s programs will provide sport-specific operational support at the discretion of the head coach.

“As someone who has worked with hundreds of incredible women over my 37-year career at UCLA, I couldn’t be prouder to support Women of Westwood,” said Valorie Kondos Field, who coached the UCLA women’s gymnastics teams to seven national titles. “This celebration is a chance to commemorate the wonderful successes of our women’s athletic programs, while the fundraising initiative is an opportunity to build upon those successes from the last 50 years and allow our female student-athletes to represent UCLA as difference-makers in our community for years to come.”

“In 1972, they passed Title IX, and in 1975 I had no idea where I was going to school, but UCLA came to me and offered the very first women’s athletic scholarship,” said Meyers Drysdale. “And so I played basketball, volleyball, ran track here, and that was the best decision I ever made.”

While fundraising is ongoing, the Women of Westwood celebration of UCLA Athletics’ women in sports will launch on June 23, 2022, the 50th anniversary of Title IX, and continue throughout the 2022-23 academic year.

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