Christine
Grant
National Association of College Women Athletic Administrators
As Women's
Athletic Director of the University of Iowa, Christine Grant's name and voice
become familiar to the world of sports as she crusaded for
gender equity in intercollegiate athletics and championed Title IX nationwide.
With a coaching staff that was predominantly female, Grant guided the Iowa women's
program to a position of national prominence. In addition, Grant has served
as an expert consultant to the Health, Education and Welfare Office for Civil
Rights Title IX Task Force. She has provided testimony in numerous landmark
sport discrimination lawsuits against academic institutions (including Washington
State University, Temple University, Indiana University-Pennsylvania, Brown
University and Louisiana State University) and has helped mediate a settlement
at the University of Texas. Grant currently serving as the NACWAA representative
to monitor the actions of the Commission on Opportunity in Athletics.