Sentence examples for athletic opportunities from inspiring English sources

When combined with declining male enrollment, the use of gender quotas has resulted in the erosion of athletic opportunities for male athletes in a variety of Olympic sports like gymnastics and volleyball.

Waiting for a changing of the guard is difficult when young LGBT athletes and assistant coaches today are deprived of their athletic opportunities by the fear or bigotry of their elders.

(Title IX is the law that guarantees women equal athletic opportunities in college sports).

He believed in discipline, hard work, fair play, civil rights, equal athletic opportunities for women.

Since the legislation was passed, academic and athletic opportunities for women and girls have increased vastly.

But she came of age at a time when professional athletic opportunities for women were few.

When money is tight, the struggle to close the gap in athletic opportunity is even tougher.

Ms. Ackerman said athletic opportunity helped prepare girls and women for leadership and teamwork in business.

The mixed decision involving the federal law known as Title IX, which requires schools and universities to provide equal athletic opportunity to men and women, led both sides to declare victory.

I am not demeaning cheerleading skills, but is it a bona fide athletic opportunity for women or a convenient one for the athletic department?" Mary Jo Kane, a professor of sports sociology and a director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport at the University of Minnesota, called Maryland's decision "a Title IX end-around".

The biggest barrier may be the outdated attitude that sees bikes only as a recreational athletic opportunity rather than a practical transportation option.