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Rick Wright: Women’s sports did exist after all at UNM, pre-Title IX

During my long-ago (1965-69) undergraduate days, as I walked the malls and halls of the University of New Mexico campus, I knew for an absolute fact that there were no intercollegiate athletic opportunities for UNM women students at the time.

How did I know this? I had neither seen, read nor heard of such a thing. Therefore, such opportunities must not have existed,

Right?

This I wrote, sticking to my story, during the Journal’s series on the 50th anniversary of Title IX earlier this year. Nothing for women at UNM, interscholastically, at least, before Title IX.