Title IX changed all of that and also created advancement and access opportunities for talented, motivated and elite female student-athletes to derive the same benefits as their male counterparts from quality coaching, demanding training, teamwork, competition and a college education. in physical education at Baylor University. In 1975, Texas, in response to Title IX, hired as the first director of its recently created womens athletic department a brusque, audacious 29-year-old visionary, Donna Lopiano. Page: Im not a woe-is-me-type person. By JIM VERTUNO October 4, 2022 GMT. When he came to Texas in 1996, the upper Midwesttransplant wouldn't have imagined heading a program that would give him four state championships. She was the head coach for the women's team at University of Texas at Austin . With all the things I teach and share with young people regarding forgiveness and overcoming a mindset I had to say yes.. It was circa 1974 when we were counselors at a Patsy Neal Basketball Camp in North Carolina. Lopiano deduced that it was Stephen F. Austins Sue Gunter or UT-Arlingtons Conradt. The University of Texas will honor former women's coach Jody Conradt with a 7-foot bronze statue inside the Longhorns' basketball arena. As individuals, we gauge our success by the depth of ongoing, sustained relationships with the student-athletes. The NCAA and mens college sports administrators were concerned that if Title IX forced schools to fund womens sports, it would dilute resources for and income from revenue-producing mens sports, primarily football and basketball. Her time at UT also included coaching the sport's first undefeated national champion. Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 1998 I think we all did. Women's Champ Week predictions: Which teams will win the auto bids in all 32 conferences? Jody Conradt came to the University of Texas just a couple of years after [Title IX], said former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in a taped statement. Then the coaches at Tennessee and Texas, Pat Summitt, left, and Jody Conradt alternated annual games between home courts starting in 1982 in a successful attempt to expand the popularity of women's basketball. 2023 The University of Texas at Austin Athletics, J. 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With a full-out style that was unprecedented and unmatched during its time, Conradt led the 1985-86 Longhorns to a 34-0 record and national championship, the NCAAs first perfect season in the sport. Located in Springfield, Massachusetts, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is an independent non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to promoting, preserving and celebrating the game of basketball at every level. Or that in her 31 seasons at Texas, her teams aggregate graduation rate would be 99%. 2023 www.statesman.com. Speak with her former student-athletes, and they agree on Conradt's life lessons: integrity and team goals above all, practice self-discipline and be organized, embrace diversity and tolerance, commit to honest and effective communication, maintain presence and exhibit class. From 1992-2001, Conradt served UT in a dual role as basketball coach and womens athletics director, and she currently serves as a special assistant to womens athletics. And let's face it, that's pretty big. Now women are taking advantage of that. Sport is this extraordinary developmental thing that has shaped men forever to be real players in the game of corporate America, or be successful in whatever they choose to do, she says. Having common goals. Nearly 200,000 people visit the Hall of Fame Museum each year to learn about the game, experience the interactive exhibits and test their skills on the Jerry Colangelo "Court of Dreams." Its always thrilling to take a diamond in the rough and build it. The postbaccalaureate impact is the same for the role player and the Olympian. A sixth sense about the game. They reached the Final Four the following season, but then not again until 2003. ft. of basketball history. As only the second woman ever inducted into the Springfield, Mass. Conradt also was Texas' women's athletic director from 1992-2001. Inspire features a curriculum created to develop leadership, talent and capabilities among undergraduate women at UT. The following season, we would travel to Knoxville to play in front of 24,563 fans, setting a Guinness World Record for women's basketball attendance. You can see it. Football and other mens sports neednt have worried, turns out. From 1990 to 2000, we (Texas) lost every single game in the series. He could not remember the last time hes seen a Texas basketball game. Self-Morgan, who has coached Westlake and Duncanville to multiple high school state championships, does not recall Page complaining about racial discrimination. Basketball players hand-me-down uniforms from the volleyball team. Jody Conradt has reached the pinnacle of athletic success and has been honored by multiple halls of fame. She received a phone call from an attorney representing the AIAW, which was fighting the first major resistance to Title IX: The Tower Amendment, introduced in the U.S. Senate in 1974 by Texas Sen. John Tower, seeking to exempt revenue-producing sports from Title IX. WebSome people have speculated that you were pushed, even though youve said it was your decision. When Texas developed its womens basketball team, the Longhorns were already several steps behind the states established programs Wayland Baptist, Stephen F. Austin, Baylor, Rice, Temple Junior College. Her 1985-86 team (34-0) was the sport's first undefeated national champion, and she was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1998. Pages first team at Texas finished its club-based schedule with a 7-11 record. After coaching at Sam Houston State and serving as coach/womens athletics director at UT-Arlington, Conradts classroom became a 16,000-seat arena at The University of Texas at Austin. Her aspirations were to teach. Her love was basketball. Her love was basketball. Buy or Sell Tickets. Registration for this event is now open in the THSCA Member Portal . During his final two seasons, as a member of the AIAW, the Longhorns were 17-10 and 21-7, respectively, good progress for such a new team. Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Conradt is known as a pioneer, but also a durable, dynamic and ethical leader who gave credibility to her sport during 31 years as head coach with the Longhorns. Two years after relinquishing the AD role, Conradt coached Texas to the 2003 Final Four. No, Im just going to tell you how to keep your job.. Rice. On Friday, Texas unveiled a 7-foot bronze statue to honor Conradt's role in that fight, her 900 career victories and her 1986 national championship team, the first in the sport to go undefeated. UT expects Pat Summitt to be among those on hand for the unveiling of the 7-foot bronze statue. 2 Indiana, No. No person in the United States shall, based on sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance. Rodney Page came home Sunday to a place he barely recognized. All the coaches she had or knew of were men, including her seventh grade coach and next-door neighbor Ray Akins, who would go on to become one of the states most legendary football coaches. All seating is General Admission. She is among names such as the late Pat Summitt, Jody Conradt and C. Vivian Stringer. We were happy to come away with a victory, but more importantly, I remember marveling at how hard their marketing department had worked to pull off such an amazing feat and how excited we were to be a part of history. We also recognized our many connections. Jody Conradt was the Texas women's basketball coach from 1976-2007 and is a member of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. Page relied on Texas mens basketball coach Leon Black. Under Rice, Conradt learned the value of fundamentals. "She was preparing us for the future, to be the doctors, lawyers, teachers and mothers of the next generation," Benton-McCrary said. After retiring she went on to a career in nulrsing and worked for a veterans hospital both in the surgery unit and later management. And of the schools 62 overall national titles, exactly half have been won by womens teams, all since 1981. From 1992-2001, Conradtalsoserved UT in a dual role as basketball coach and women's athletics director. As players, we never picked up on anything like that.. Texas already has statues honoring former football coach Darrell Royal and Heisman Trophy winners Earl Campbell and Ricky Williams outside the football stadium. Long before the Lady Longhorns became a national brand, Page sought funds to buy new uniforms. He coached the womens basketball team in the pre-Jody Conradt Era 1973 to 1976 at fabled Gregory Gym. Texas was a sleeping giant soon to be awakened by visionary womens athletics director Donna Lopiano and a supportive administration, faculty and fan base. After he was removed as basketball coach by Donna Lopiano, UTs first director of womens athletics department, he spent three more years at the Forty Acres as a physical education teacher. That is Title IX impact, alive, well and continuing. He retired from the Round Rock school district in 2004. As I think back on the early days of women's basketball, I think about how much of it is defined by not only Pat's success but her presence. She was always the consummate student. During her illustrious career, Conradt has coached countless players who have been Olympians, earned All-America honors, and National Player of the Year acclaim. Women's Power Rankings: Pac-12 teams, Maryland show their teeth, SCNext Top 25: Ranking the best high school girls' basketball teams in the 2022-23 season, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. 10 Irish lose top scorer Miles to knee injury. WebJody Conradts childhood revolved around community, family, friends and sports in the small West Texas town of Goldthwaite. We were at our states' preeminent public institutions. She retired from coaching in 2007, but remains active as special assistant in administration to Chris Del Conte, who in 2017, his first year as athletic director, combined the mens and womens programs as one department, making Texas the last NCAA Division I school to do so. The University of Texas declared an Intercollegiate Athletics Department for Women in 1973 and formalized varsity sports for the 1974-75 academic year. That's one of the reasons it's so difficult to come to grips with how little we know about Alzheimer's, which took her away too soon Tuesday at age 64. While gazing at the fans standing and cheering for him on Sunday, Rodney Page said he made the right choice to attend. A box lunch for attendee is included in the registration cost. Title IX and the universities that embraced it changed the lives of young women across the country, Conradt said. We dominated the series early, going 4-0 from 1982-86 en route to becoming the NCAA's first undefeated team to win a national women's basketball championship. Her friends and players also knew a loving, gentle - yes, gentle - kind and compassionate soul who loved to laugh and entertain friends at her house. Ultimately she agreed to be the athletic director, but only if she was allowed to keep coach. It wasnt until later, after I left, that I realized there was a whole world that didnt understand women in athletics, says Addie Jo, better known as Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame coach and University of Texas icon Jody Conradt. and M.S. Women's Champ Week predictions: Which teams will win the auto bids in all 32 conferences? UTA had driven to Arkansas in a pair of station wagons. Chris and his wonderful spouse, Dr. Robin Ward, faculty member at Rice University, daily share the impact higher education has on Her aspirations were to teach. Its consequence is reflected in her lifes arc: From Addie Jo to non-scholarship Baylor star to masters degree to $12,000-a-year college P.E. Two of this years Longhorn national titles were by womens teams, rowing and tennis. Angela Jackson was a four-year starter eventual all-conference player for us and graduated in 1998 with a journalism degree. This year, Texas won a school-record-tying four national championships and attained a school-record six national runner-up finishes. Easily the states best womens basketball program since the late 1940s was Plainviews Wayland Baptist and its Flying Queens, the first school in the country to offer full scholarships to women athletes, largely funded by a local businessman. At Texas, it was the great adventure, says Lopiano, 75. Gracious and dynamic as ever at age 81, Conradt on this day has come to UTs gleaming Frank Denius Family Athletics Hall of Fame to discuss the 50th anniversary of the civil rights law that changed her life and those of millions of other American women. Its fun to watch.. But thankfully the little picture that I did envision grew into something grand and glorious.. Lopianos other first-month lesson spoke to the almighty power of football at Texas. We knew we were women entering a male-dominated arena. This was not the case for many women prior to 1972. More important, 99 percent of her players graduated. Those women, Conradt notes, truly played out of love of competing. I don't know of anyone who deserves this honor more.". Jody Conradt arrived at the University of Texas in 1976 and quickly established the Longhorns as an unstoppable force on the national scene. Fortunately, she resided in a state that prides itself on passion, opportunity and can-do attitude. Providing financial support to student-athletes pursuing undergraduate or graduate degrees after their eligibility has expired, this fund exists to assist those who are determined to succeed academically. She also served as interim director of the newly established department in 1974-75. Women's Power Rankings: Pac-12 teams, Maryland show their teeth, SCNext Top 25: Ranking the best high school girls' basketball teams in the 2022-23 season. All of the funding for womens sports came from the university presidents office. Her first college head coaching job was overseeing basketball and volleyball at Sam Houston State from 1969 to 1973. If approved, it would be the largest scholarship for Texas Womens Athletics in history, said Jody Conradt, a retired UT womens basketball coach, in a letter of support for the proposal. Donna comes to my house on a Sunday morning and says, out of the blue, Im gonna take this job at the Womens Sports Foundation. When Texas director of womens athletics Christine Plonsky invited Page two weeks to return for Sundays celebration, it was the first time anyone from the university had notified him in 40 years. Prior to that he worked at The Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Light. UT plans statue for former women's basketball coach Conradt. Heres what you need to know. Retha Swindell and Cathy Self-Morgan, pioneer players for Texas womens basketball, describe Page as a driven but fair man who cared about his players. Its rattlesnake season in Texas. Among the 20 team sports in which it competes (11 womens sports) Texas finished among the top 10 in 14 of them while winning the Learfield Directors Cup for all-around excellence for the second straight year, breaking Stanfords 25-year hold on the award. It will be on permanent display in the Frank Erwin Center by the Longhorns' exhibition game against Incarnate Word on Oct. 30. As we approach the 50th anniversary date June 23, 2022 of the passage of Title IX federal legislation, Im among many who joyfully witness that laws impact today. They saw her photo on the wall of heralded players. Jody Conradt: It certainly was my decision, and I think [womens athletics Page described Thompson as a very special human being., In Betty Thompsons eyes, I saw acceptance and belief, he continued. Growing up in the 1950s in their close-knit community of 1,300, they assumed girls sports were universally encouraged, as was the case in Goldthwaite and other Central Texas hamlets. There was a connection, a camaraderie, a feeling that we were all in this together and weve got to make do. In 1974, Pages Longhorns became the first womens team in UT history to play their games at Gregory Gym. Perhaps nowhere was that concern more heightened than at Texas, which had won national football championships in 1963, 1969 and 1970 under coach Darrell Royal, who since 1962 had doubled as the schools athletic director. She was 45 years old. They took cars and vans to road games. In 1992, after announcing her departure to become CEO of the Womens Sports Foundation, Lopiano covertly plotted a lawsuit by seven womens athletes that accused Texas of Title IX violations, a transformative moment that rocked UT and Lopianos AD successor, Conradt. According to the foundations 2020 Chasing Equity report, citing 2019 U.S. Department of Education figures, 87% of NCAA schools still offered disproportionately higher rates of athletic opportunities to male athletes compared to their enrollment percentages. The next season, on Dec. 14, 1986, we'd lose to the Lady Vols 85-78 in Austin. It was always bigger than us. Opportunity, she says. - Texas talent: Meet some of the most influential and pioneering female athletes in history, - As Title IX turns 50, University of Texas exes reflected on common bond of championships, - Jody Conradt, University of Texas embody the shaping, struggles and success of Title IX, - How pro path for female athletes has changed since Title IX, and where it needs to improve, - 50 years of Title IX: Meet the next generation of star female athletes from D-FW. If our teams were good, people would eventually take notice. The University of Texas is a better institution of higher learning. The AIAW attorney asked Lopiano if she could obtain a copy of Texas mens athletic budget. "This is not about me. I reflected on this today in writing this column. Column: Isnt it time we heard from Georgia coach Kirby Smart? As director of the division of recreational sports, she chaired the committee that established a department for womens intercollegiate athletics at the university. WebJ ody Conradt, the powerhouse women's basketball coach at the University of Texas -Austin (UT), has won more college women's basketball games than any other coach in We would commit to playing each other every year, alternating the games between Austin and Knoxville, Tenn. FILE - Texas forward Tiffany Jackson (33) points during Big 12 women's basketball tournament practice Monday, March 5, 2007 in Oklahoma City, Okla. Jackson, a former standout at the University of Texas who was the Jackson was a standout for Jody Conradt's final Texas teams, one of only three Longhorns to ever achieve three-time All-American status. It would take six years. Texas actually was behind somewhat compared to some smaller in-state schools (Wayland Baptist College, for example) and even at UT System component where I was employed (UT Arlington). Texas officials said Friday the statue will be dedicated in a private ceremony on Oct. 5. Joe Youngblood Established by the College of Liberal Arts and the Center for Women and Gender Studies, this fund is used primarily to support the "Inspire" program. Conradt, valedictorian of Goldthwaites 22-student Class of 59, recalls the boys and girls basketball teams riding a bus together to play packed-gym doubleheaders in towns like Mason, Burnet and Llano. Her fingerprints at the University of Texas are as the 50th anniversary of the civil rights law that changed her life and those of millions of other American women. Indeed, it was aimed at eliminating discriminatory practices at federally funded programs, particularly in universities. She enrolled at Baylor to pursue a teaching degree. At games end, Conradt had to ask Gunter for $200 cash and Stephen F. Austins hotel reservations. The Title IX Educational Amendment was beginning to reshape opportunities for women in collegiate sports. While all attempts are made to ensure the correctness and suitability of information under our control and to correct any errors brought to our attention, no representation or guarantee can be made as to the accessibility, correctness or suitability of information provided by any hyperlinked site or any other linked information accessed through the Basketball Hall of Fame website but not under its control. Her annual athletic budget was $1,200 and her $12,000 salary derived not from coaching, but teaching seven activities classes. "Her career is a reminder that when you make sure your players are students first, everything else falls into place.". UT-Arlington teams competed regionally under AIAW governance, which meant frequent matchups against Gunters powerful Stephen F. Austin basketball squads. It was designed by New Jersey-based artist Brian Hanlon, the official sculptor for the Naismith Hall of Fame. WebAddie Jo "Jody" Conradt [1] is a retired women's basketball coach. Two years passed, in fact, before it dawned on the NCAAs legal counsel to inquire whether Title IX encompassed athletics and other extracurricular activities. Texas womens varsity athletics began in the mid-1970s with 90 athletes competing in eight sports. If Conradt had the edge due to her up-tempo offense, full-court defense, attention to detail and foothold in the UT system which enabled her to meet Chancellor Charles LeMaistre so be it. She saw a chance to wake up a "sleeping giant" in the early days of Title IX, the 1972 federal law that bans sex discrimination in educational programs -- including sports. Grizzlies 113, Rockets 99: 2nd-half flurry extends Houston's skid, Texas A&M's SEC title hopes quashed by Alabama's win over Auburn. She was drafted, played in the WNBA and oversees in seven countries. And I think you should be athletic director because, if you dont take the role, theyre likely to combine the departments and well lose everything weve built. , Problem was, Conradt wanted to keep coaching. Creating a model collegiate program that several other schools have tried to emulate, but Our agreement was simple. Conradt is the first Texas women's athletic official to be honored with a statue on campus. 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