•May 4, 2022•
Millikin University will welcome athletes and loyal supporters of women’s athletic teams back to campus May 13-15, for a celebration weekend to honor 50 years of women’s athletics at Millikin.
Millikin’s Women in Athletics celebration will be full of events that Millikin University 50 Years of Women Athleticsallow the university to recognize athletes as part of a Big Blue tradition of trailblazers.
Millikin University has a long history of nurturing lives of meaning and value in its students. It was important to the university that its female students be validated when they expressed their desire to receive more from their collegiate experience. In 1970, two full years before Title IX legislation was passed, Millikin put that value into action as Harriett Crannell pioneered the charge and assembled Millikin’s first women’s basketball team, marking the beginning of MU’s storied history of women’s athletics. Now, 50 years and 10 NCAA teams later, Millikin celebrates a proud tradition of women wearing the Big Blue.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.