In Eugene, Oregon, opposition to Title IX is alive and well at the University of Oregon.
The women's varsity beach volleyball is being treated not any better than a club sport, despite empty promises from the huge $153 million budget athletic department with some of the best sports facilities in the country that things will change.
The team practices and plays home games in a city park. The players, who do not receive athletic scholarships, have had to use a public restroom with no doors on the stalls. At times, they have driven hundreds of miles for games and stayed three or four to a room and had to share beds.
The beach volleyball team is one of 20 varsity sports at the University of Oregon. It is the only team that receives no athletic scholarship funding. No other public university team among the nation’s largest athletic conferences, the Power Five, spends zero on athletic scholarships. UO has persistently awarded more athletic scholarships to men over women beyond the threshold permitted by Title IX, public records show.
Interviews with more than a dozen former players and coaches and analysis of financial records detail how extreme an outlier Oregon’s beach volleyball program is compared to UO’s other teams, as well as its peers in the Pac-12 Conference.
https://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/2023/07/oregon-ducks-beach-volleyball-players-detail-disparate-treatment-that-experts-say-could-violate-title-ix.html
