Nearly a decade before Title IX was passed, Ann Baker Furrow competed on the men’s golf team at the University of Tennessee, helping to highlight the discrepancy in opportunities between men and women at the time.
Then, 20 years after the law was passed, current Tennessee administrator Angie Boyd Keck featured on Tennessee’s first-ever women’s golf team — a program that hit the ground running and maintained the Lady Vols strict tradition of excellence.
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Awesome piece. Credit to Jack Lupton of Lookout Mountain for his big donation. Also, I think Keil Frassrand of Hixson, who played at Ole Miss when we did not have a program, coordinated things before we hired a coach. Neat to hear these women speak. I'd never heard Ann's voice before. Legend. Would like to see us start a gymnastics program. The sport draws huge crowds and interest at other SEC schools and would give our fans another great entertainment option. Thousands of young girls in the state participate in gymnastics academies. We owe it to them.
Outstanding piece. What a heritage we have to pass on