Dr. Lopiano to Speak on Gender Equity
The Student-athlete Advisory Council of Bay Path College
is proud to announce that Dr. Donna Lopiano will be speaking to the
student-athletes and campus on Monday, March 25, 2013 at 9
pm in the Blake Dining Hall. Dr. Lopiano will be
speaking on Gender Equity and other issues regarding
student-athlete welfare. She will be returning to the campus
for the 2nd time since 1997. She was the keynote speaker for
the 1st Womens' and Girls Sports Day program. An annual NCAA grant
will fund this event.
Please come out and see this exceptional speaker on the
campus.
Dr. Donna Lopiano is the President and founder of Sports Management Resources (SMR). SMR is a consulting firm that focuses on bringing the knowledge of experienced, expert former athletics directors to assist scholastic and collegiate athletics departments in solving growth and development challenges.
Dr. Lopiano is the former Chief Executive Officer of the
Women’s Sports Foundation (1992-2007) and was named one of
“The 10 Most Powerful Women in Sports” by Fox Sports.
The Sporting News has also listed her as one of “The 100 Most
Influential People in Sports.” The Institute for
International Sport named Lopiano among the “100 Most
Influential Sports Educators in America.” She has been
nationally and internationally recognized for her leadership as an
athletics administrator and work advocating for gender equity in
sports by the International Olympic Committee, the National
Collegiate Athletic Association, the National Association for Girls
and Women in Sports, the National Association of Collegiate Women
Athletic Administrators and the National Association of Collegiate
Directors of Athletics.
Dr. Lopiano also served for 18 years as the University of Texas at
Austin Director of Women’s Athletics and is a past-president
of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women. During
her tenure at Texas, she constructed what many believed to be the
premiere women’s athletics program in the country; twice
earning the top program in the nation award. All eight UT sports
were consistently ranked in the nation’s top ten in Division
I where they earned eighteen national championships in six
different sports, produced 51 individual sport national champion
athletes, 57 Southwest Conference championships and 395
All-American athletes, dozens among them Olympians and world
champions. Ninety percent of women athletes who exhausted their
athletic eligibility at the University of Texas received a
baccalaureate degree. Prior to Texas, Lopiano served as an
Assistant Professor and Assistant Athletic Director at Brooklyn
College of the City University of New York.
Recognized as one of the foremost national experts on gender equity
in sport, Dr. Lopiano has testified about Title IX and gender
equity before three Congressional committees, served as a
consultant to the U.S. Office for Civil Rights Department of
Health, Education and Welfare Title IX Task Force and as an expert
witness in over thirty court cases. Dr. Lopiano has also served as
a consultant to school districts, institutions of higher education
and state education agencies on Title IX compliance and to domestic
and international sport organizations on program development,
governance and strategic planning.
She received her bachelor’s degree from Southern Connecticut
State University, her master’s and doctoral degrees from the
University of Southern California and is the recipient of five
honorary doctoral degrees. She has been a college coach of
men’s and women’s volleyball, women’s basketball
and softball and coached the Italian national women’s
softball team.
