Talking Title IX and College Sports

Separate but Equal? Women-Identifying Athlete Experiences & Intersectionality in Intercollegiate Athletics

One of the most enduring conversations in college sport, and an area of heated debate and dispute, is the question of how to achieve equity and fairness in a system that has embraced the segregation of women and men. Even though segregation in athletics inherently discourages equity, the concept of separate but equal (some say separate and equal) is a central organizing principle and defining feature of the college sport landscape. In this episode, we discuss these issues with Jennifer Hoffman, Professor in the College of Education at the University of Washington and author of Understanding Collegiate Esports: A Practitioners Guide to Developing Community and Competition and College Sports & Educational Values in Competition and Kirsten Hextrum, associate professor in the School of Language, Culture, and Society and coordinator of the College Student Services Administration Program at Oregon State University, author of Special Admission: How College Sport Recruitment Favors White Suburban Athletes. This episode’s release coincides with the publication of a special issue in the Journal of Gender & Women in Higher Education entitled Separate but Equal? Women-Identifying Athlete Experiences & Intersectionality in Intercollegiate Athletics. Co-editors of the issue are Jennifer Lee Hoffman, Kirsten Hextrum and Valyncia Raphael-Woodward. Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education: Vol 19, No 1: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/uwhe21/19/1?nav=tocList Host: Dr. Ellen Staurowsky Guest: Jennifer Lee Hoffman and Kirsten Hextrum Follow us on Instagram and TikTok! https://www.instagram.com/talkingtitleix_ic/ https://www.tiktok.com/@talkingtitleix/ An Ithaca College Park School of Communications and High Tops Media Podcast Follow for more High Tops Media content on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hightopsmedia/ Check out more podcasts from HTM on our website: https://hightops.media

The NCAA's Use of Title IX as a Shield for Bad Business Practices

In today’s episode, we talk about how the NCAA has engaged in bad faith efforts to use Title IX to shield it from being held accountable for business practices that exploit and discriminate against college athletes. Prior to pursuing a doctoral degree in sport management, Sam worked as a sports agent, consultant, and immigration attorney so he brings a wealth of experience and insight to this topic as a lawyer and scholar. Host: Dr. Ellen Staurowsky Guest: Dr. Sam Ehrlich, Assistant Professor, Legal Studies, Department of Management, Boise State University Follow us on Instagram and TikTok! https://www.instagram.com/talkingtitleix_ic/ https://www.tiktok.com/@talkingtitleix/ An Ithaca College Park School of Communications and High Tops Media Podcast Follow for more High Tops Media content on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hightopsmedia/ Check out more podcasts from HTM on our website: https://hightops.media

Congressional Focus on the Implications of College Athlete Employment and Title IX Implications

In this episode, we discuss how discredited ideas about college sport amateurism shaped the April 8, 2025 U.S. House Committee on the Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions hearing entitled The NLRB, Student-Athletes, and the Future of College Sports. We explore the implications of continuing to perpetuate the underlying assumptions and mythologies that have formed the basis for an exploitative system that harms college athletes economically, educationally, physically, and psychologically. Along the way, we get into the problematic way in which Title IX is used to preserve the status quo instead of challenging the power structure that suppresses the value of all college athletes. Host: Dr. Ellen Staurowsky Guest: Dr. Richard Southall, Professor in the Department of Sport and Entertainment Management and Director of the College Sport Research Institute at the University of South Carolina Follow us on Instagram and TikTok! https://www.instagram.com/talkingtitleix_ic/ https://www.tiktok.com/@talkingtitleix/ An Ithaca College Park School of Communications and High Tops Media Podcast Follow for more High Tops Media content on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hightopsmedia/ Check out more podcasts from HTM on our website: https://hightops.media

Gender and Race in the Athletic Training Center

In this episode, we go inside the athletic training room to examine more closely the impact of profit-motives on the decisions made regarding college athlete health and well-being and how athletes experience the training room environment. We will also be discussing the racial and gender dynamics that affect injured athletes, their perception of injury, and how injury affects their relationships with coaches, teammates, and sports medicine staff. Dr. Kaitlyn Pericak, author of Body Factory: Exploiting University Athletes’ Healthcare for Profit in the Training Room, shares her work based on her time observing the inner workings of athletic training rooms. Host: Dr. Ellen Staurowsky Guest: Dr. Kaitlyn Pericak, Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma Follow us on Instagram and TikTok! https://www.instagram.com/talkingtitleix_ic/ https://www.tiktok.com/@talkingtitleix/ An Ithaca College Park School of Communications and High Tops Media Podcast Follow for more High Tops Media content on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hightopsmedia/ Check out more podcasts from HTM on our website: https://hightops.media

Gender Logics That Shape Women Athlete Experience in Sport

Few would dispute the fact that sport as it is organized in the United States and many places around the world is a gendered environment. Structured around a gender binary, the predominant structure of sport is sex segregated. As much as laws like Title IX are generally thought to foster equal access to sport for men and women, the very act of separating places a spotlight on difference. For women athletes developing in such a system, what gender logics shape their sense of who they are and how do they co-construct these logics? In a fascinating autoethnography, Bowling Green State University sport management professor Meredith Flaherty, who is a former NCAA Division I women’s soccer player, professional soccer player and coach at the youth and college levels, reflects on her own experiences through the lens of gender, discourse, and agency. In this episode, we speak with Meredith about her journey as an athlete, coach, and scholar and the insights she has gained by putting her own athletic career under the microscope. Host: Dr. Ellen Staurowsky Guest: Meredith Flaherty, Assistant Professor, Sport Management, Bowling Green State University Follow us on Instagram and TikTok! https://www.instagram.com/talkingtitleix_ic/ https://www.tiktok.com/@talkingtitleix/ An Ithaca College Park School of Communications and High Tops Media Podcast Follow for more High Tops Media content on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hightopsmedia/ Check out more podcasts from HTM on our website: https://hightops.media