As colleges celebrate the 50th anniversary of Title IX during the 2022-23 academic year, it has become clear that the women who pioneered athletics on campuses in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s were more aware of the impact of the landmark federal legislation.
When it came to student fitness, Professor Mary Jo Herdman was one of the early pioneers at Marietta College.
Fifty years ago today (June 23), Congress passed the landmark legislation known as Title IX to prohibit sex discrimination in education and balance the playing field for women’s athletics.
With cannons spraying blue and white confetti onto the infield at USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City, Marietta College’s Micaela Bradley ’23 (Greenup, Illinois) was in the middle of the action at the Women’s College World Series.
Kail Hill was only 10, but he vividly remembers having “Hopper 24” painted on his back as he and his family cheered on Marietta College’s baseball team as the Etta Express won the 2012 NCAA Division III Baseball Championship in Appleton, Wisconsin.
For a few weeks last year, Jason Ellis (Marion, Ohio) had come to terms with his Marietta College basketball career ending following the shortened COVID season.
Marietta College is partnering with Rickabaugh Graphics to develop a new athletics logo that is more in line with a modern Pioneer and strengthens the institution’s overall athletic identity.
Her world was crumbling all around her. No, it was actually in a freefall and Hannah Garofalo ’21 didn’t know what to do next.
It was an inspired, spontaneous moment.
As a part of its virtual homecoming celebration — Stay HOMEcoming 2020 — this past weekend (October 16-17), the Marietta College community celebrated the hard work and perseverance of its student-athletes through a Virtual Stadium Sell-Out event to raise funds on the