{"id":37,"date":"2007-08-30T10:32:07","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T16:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2007\/08\/30\/if-you-let-me-play-sports\/"},"modified":"2007-08-30T10:32:07","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T16:32:07","slug":"if-you-let-me-play-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2007\/08\/if-you-let-me-play-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"If you let me play sports…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"women\u2019sIn 1995, Nike ran an ad<\/a> where girls explained what would happen if they played sports. “I will have more self-confidence ,” “I’ll be 50 percent less likely to get breast cancer,” “I will suffer less depression,” etc.<\/p>\n

A year later, Baylor joined the Big 12, and since then, BU has been at the forefront of universities providing new chances for female athletes. In fact, according to a chart in a recent issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em><\/a>, Baylor has been among the top five Division-I schools in the country at increasing the number of varsity female athletes since 1995-96 (when the Chronicle<\/em> started tracking such numbers).<\/p>\n

Here’s the chart:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Institution<\/strong><\/th>\nFemale athletes (1995-96)<\/strong><\/th>\nFemale athletes (2005-6)<\/strong><\/th>\nPercentage increase<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Northern Arizona<\/td>\n32<\/td>\n249<\/td>\n678%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
TCU<\/td>\n40<\/td>\n184<\/td>\n360%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mississippi Valley State<\/td>\n29<\/td>\n121<\/td>\n317%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Notre Dame<\/td>\n94<\/td>\n367<\/td>\n290%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Baylor <\/strong><\/td>\n72<\/strong><\/td>\n238<\/strong><\/td>\n231%<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Sic \u2019em, Lady Bears!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 1995, Nike ran an ad where girls explained what would happen if they played sports. “I will have more self-confidence ,” “I’ll be 50 percent less likely to get breast cancer,” “I will suffer less depression,” etc. A year later, Baylor joined the Big 12, and since then, BU has been at the forefront […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}