EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: 3-4:30 p.m., April 18.

EVENT: Vivian Stringer, Rutgers University’s women’s basketball head coach, will discuss her career and Title IX during a lecture entitled “My Career and Title IX.”

With more than 40 years of coaching experience, Stringer will share her history as a child growing up in Edenborn, Pa., as a basketball/field hockey player at Slippery Rock University and as head women’s basketball coach at three different Division I universities (Cheyney University, University of Iowa and Rutgers).

The event is free and open to the public. It is part of a lecture series—SHARP Insights: How Title IX Changed the Game—regarding the 40th anniversary of the passage of Title IX, the landmark legislation that enabled women and girls to become high school and college athletes, and to succeed professionally in all fields.

The SHARP Center for Women and Girls, a collaboration between U-M and the Women’s Sports Foundation, supports research and policymaking to enhance the lives of women and girls through sport, play and movement.

INFORMATION: Terri Eagen-Torkko, (734) 647-6394 or [email protected].

MEDIA: Reporters seeking parking credentials must contact Jared Wadley, ([email protected]) by April 16.

LOCATION: Annenberg Auditorium, Ford School of Public Policy, 735 South State St. Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&q=735%20S.%20State%20Street,%20Ann%20Arbor,%20MI%2048109

SPONSORS: SHARP Center for Women and Girls and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, with additional support from the Center for the Education of Women and the School of Public Health.