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Womens Sports Facts
Title: Womens Sports Facts
Category: Recreation & Sports
Details: Words: 460 | Pages: 2.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Womens Sports Facts
IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT WOMEN AND SPORTS
Facts about Girls, Women and Sports
* Before Title IX was passed in 1972, only 1 out of 27 high school girls participated in sports. Today, 1 out of 2.5 high school girls plays organized athletics.
* Female student athletes graduate at significantly higher rates (68%) than female student nonathletes (59%).
* In 2000, American Sports Data, Inc. estimated that 3.8 million girls (age 6-17) play basketball. Out of the 9.59 youth, boys and girls playing soccer, approximately 43% of U.S. are girls …showed first 75 words of 460 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 460 total…Women comprise 69% of the professional staff for the WNBA.
* In the five year period between 1992 and 1997, corporate sponsorship of women’s sports doubled to 0 million from 5 million.
* Although 20% of golfers are women, they purchase 50% of the golf product.
* Sports Illustrated's 1999 "Sportsman of the Year" was awarded to the Women's World Cup Soccer Team (12/20/99). In addition, the 1999 Women’s World Cup final match became the most watched soccer game in US television history with 40 million viewers.
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