“Keep Women’s Sports Female”: Rally against the NCAA
WoLF has joined with over 10 other national organizations to protest the NCAA’s discrimination against female athletes.
On January 12, female athletes, coaches, parents, and policy leaders will rally during the annual convention of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in San Antonio, Texas, to demand that the organization, the governing body for collegiate sports, stop discriminating against female athletes.
The rally is sponsored by a coalition of women’s advocacy groups including the Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS), Independent Women’s Forum, Champion Women, Fair Play For Women, Women’s Sports Policy Working Group, Women’s Declaration International, U.S., Women’s Liberation Front, Fair Play Women, Concerned Women for America, International Consortium on Female Sports, LGB Alliance, Independent Women’s Law Center, and Texas Values Alliance. Read the press release about this event.
Speakers at the rally will include:
Hannah Sullivan, WoLF’s Development Director, champion for women and girls!
Riley Gaines, Former NCAA 2x All-American, 2x Olympic trials qualifier, 4x SEC Gold medalist, and SEC record holder swimmer in the 200 butterfly from the University of Kentucky. She tied for 5th place against Lia Thomas at the NCAA Championships.
Adriana McLamb, Former NCAA volleyball player from Florida International University, and current Team Florida All Star coach
Kim Jones, former All-American tennis player, mother of Ivy League swimmer, and co-founder of Independent Council on Women’s Sports (ICONS)
Blake Allen, High school volleyball player from Vermont that had to compete and share a locker room with male athlete identifying as a female. After speaking up and calling this athlete a "he", Blake was suspended from school and her father was suspended from his coaching job. The school board tried to force her to write an apology to which she did not comply.
If you are unable to attend in person, you can sign the multi-agency petition to the NCAA! WoLF partnered with over a dozen other organizations to create this petition. The petition will be hand-delivered to the NCAA.
Visit the rally website to learn more; you can access a map of the rally location here.
