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About the BookIn the Footsteps of Champions: The University of Tennessee Lady Volunteers, the First Three Decades invites readers to experience the journey of women’s intercollegiate athletics from the beginning to the present day. While the record-setting basketball dynasty of Coach Pat Summitt and the regional and national successes of ten other sports teams create fascinating stories in themselves, the saga of the Lady Volunteers actually began as early as 1893 when the first women enrolled as students at the University of Tennessee. This book captures the enthusiasm, determination, and vision of those who created the foundations for this leading women’s athletic program. Student-athletes, coaches, fans, faculty, and staff share their memories of the years prior to Title IX legislation, the first years of the program’s development as a free-standing department, and the strong presence that the Lady Volunteer’s program has today. Special features include first-person stories by coaches and student-athletes from the era preceding 1976 and the three following decades. Unique views from behind the scenes plus the largest collection of photographs ever published featuring one university’s female student-athletes across the spectrum of sports will draw the interest of the historian, sports enthusiast, and follower of women’s athletics. Readers will trace the journeys of their favorite Lady Volunteers from their respective battlegrounds through college and to the successful lives they lead today. The perspectives of these student-athletes provide insight on the role of sports in education and their future development. In the Footsteps of Champions will be inspiring and appealing to anyone who has celebrated the phenomenal success of the Lady Volunteers program—and the wonderful achievements of female student-athletes everywhere. |
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