Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Jo Ann Meadows
- Abstract:
- Personal records of SUNY Oswego athletic coach and professor Jo Ann Meadows.
- Extent:
- 3 linear feet
- Language:
- English
Background
- Scope and Content:
Includes memos, correspondence, staff reviews, team and individual women's sports statistics, suit filed under Title XI, Women's Varsity Sports Organization, women's athletics budgets & sports schedules, women's basketball scorebooks & yearbooks, athletics department administrative records.
- Biographical / Historical:
Jo Ann Meadows was born in 1940 and grew up in Middletown, Ohio. She received a BS in Health & Physical Education from Bowling Green, Ohio, and a Master's degree in Physical Education from Smith College. She holds a National Honorary Basketball Officials Rating. She taught at Douglas College, New Brunswick, NJ from 1965-70. She joined the SUNY Oswego faculty in 1970 and retired in 2000. From 1970-86 she was the women's baskeball coach; from 1973-91 she was the women's athletic director; from 1991-93 she was an assistant athletic director. She was also an Associate Professor of Health and Physical Education. From 1991-92 she was the President of the SUNY Athletic Conference.
In 1991, she and another women's athletic coach filed a Title XI suit against the college. It was dismissed in 1994 after a jury trial.
Indexed Terms
- Subjects:
- Women's
rights
Women college students
Athletes -- New York -- Oswego
Basketball -- New York -- Oswego
Health, Physical Education and Athletics Department
Judicial proceedings
Physical Education -- New York -- Oswego
Students -- New York -- Oswego
Sports - Names:
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State University College (Oswego, N.Y.)
Smouse, Patricia
Stanley, Deborah F.
Weber, Stephen L. - Places:
- Oswego (N.Y.)
Access
- RESTRICTIONS:
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Collection is open for research.
- TERMS OF ACCESS:
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Please contact SUNY Oswego Archives and Special Collections for use restrictions.
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