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BY REBECC A A. BINDER

Celebrating Girls’

The 2022–2023 academic year marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of Title IX. At Brooks, students have taken advantage of opportunities to play girls sports since the fall of 1979. Here, the Bulletin gives space to graduates from across class years to share stories of their time playing girls sports at Brooks, and what their experience wearing the green and white has meant to them in their lives and careers.

The 1980s saw girls begin to play sports at Brooks as the school became coeducational. Students who were the first generation to benefit from equal access to athletic opportunities relished the newfound sense of strength, camaraderie and tangible accomplishment that sports offered them. As one of our contributors notes, “that is exactly what burgeoning equity looks like: You get to do what you want, without thinking too much about it, just because you can.”