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Dr. Mawson's book is required reading for Kansas Jayhawks. Before Title IX, many coaches built women's sports programs on a shoestring budget and little recognition. However, their work built the framework for the growth of women's athletics after the passage of Title IX. Dr. Mawson was a national leader of those determined coaches. Her book documents those years, and I highly recommend it. - Kala M. Stroup, PhD, emerita dean and former university president, University of Kansas I have long admired Marlene Mawson for the role she played, as the first director of KU women's athletics, in bringing women's intercollegiate sports to the university in the 1960s and 1970s. Much is known about the importance of Title IX to women in higher education, including athletics, but little has been written about the status of women's sports before Title IX was enacted in 1972. For this reason, Mawson's Mission: Launching Women's Intercollegiate Athletics at the University of Kansas is must-reading not only for KU fans but also for those interested in understanding women's lives in a changing world. - Bill Tuttle, author of Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919 and 'Daddy's Gone to War': The Second World War in the Lives of America's Children

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At KU between 1973 and 1990, Marlene Mawson was coordinator of the undergraduate and graduate programs and assistant chair in the Department of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation. She is emeritus professor and was chair of the Department of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation at Illinois State University from 1990 to 2000.

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