Female Athletes Are Sharing Their Brutally Honest Experiences Of Being Disrespected In Their Sport

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“At my college back in the day, just as Title IX was being passed, the male athletes were given steak dinners at the cafe the night before big games, especially football, but basketball, and baseball too, but none for female teams. I was a walk-on to our softball team my freshman year, and also worked in the cafeteria to help pay tuition. Since I had to serve the males at these dinners, I asked my manager why they didn’t feed any of the women’s sports teams. He wasn’t sure, but was a nice man and said, ‘You know, that’s not right.'”

“A couple of days later, he asked if I wanted to get a few players together, and he would provide the food for us to make sandwiches before games. Needless to say, we did because free food was free food, even if we had to make the sandwiches ourselves. We didn’t’ get steak, but those sandwiches meant everything to us. The cafeteria manager took it upon himself to help women’s’ sports. I later earned a scholarship and didn’t work in the cafeteria anymore, but the manager always let our softball team make sandwiches to take on our road trips from then on.”
—Anonymous