How We Can Heal
How We Can Heal
Lisa Danylchuk
The Lost History of Women's Sports – And Why It Matters Today with Dr. Diane Williams
55 minutes Posted May 19, 2025 at 3:00 pm.
Introducing Dr. Diane Williams
The History of Women in Sport
The AIAW: A Different Athletic Vision
Mental Health and Athletic Culture
Building Gender-Inclusive Athletics
How the AIAW Ended and Its Legacy
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What if sports were designed around athlete wellbeing instead of profit? In this eye-opening conversation, Dr. Diane Williams shares the buried history of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW), an organization that flourished in the 1970s and early 1980s with a radical vision for collegiate athletics centered on education and student development. Dr. Williams, a professor of kinesiology at McDaniel College and former NCAA All-American athlete, reveals how this women-...