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Title IX: Strides for women of color in sports lag under law

FILE - President Bush holds a jersey with UCLA women's softball captain Natasha Watley as the team as he met with the reigning NCAA champions in several sports, in the East Room event at the White House in Washington, Monday, Nov. 17, 2003. Fifty years after the passage of Title IX, racial disparities still exist for women in college athletics. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

FILE - U.S. softball player Natasha Watley runs during practice Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008, at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Watley, a Black woman and two-time Olympic medalist in softball, started playing when she was 5. She did not have a Black teammate until she was a teenager and said there were so few girls of color who played with her and went on to college teams that she could count them on one hand. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Former Temple lacrosse head coach Tina Sloan Green puts out her fist after announcing she will serve as an honorary coach for the Eyekonz lacrosse team, in Philadelphia, Monday, Feb. 28, 2022. Once Tina Sloan Green took over the lacrosse program at Temple University in the years after the passage of Title IX, the landmark gender-equity law, she never stopped thinking about the girls who weren't playing. (Young Kim/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)

Title IX: Strides for women of color in sports lag under law