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Women’s Athletics at the University of Nevada
The University of Nevada has been perennially ranked in the top 10 in the nation in the Gender Equity Scorecard, including best in the country for its commitment to gender equity in 2006 and 2007. The University has also been recognized as a Diversity in Athletics award winner by the Laboratory for Diversity in Sport at Texas A&M University. The Wolf Pack has participated in successful legislative lobbying for gender equity funding and private fundraising to add three women’s sports. Nevada added women’s golf in 1998 and women’s soccer in 2000, while the University also brought back its women’s softball program in 2003 after a 14-year hiatus. We Were All Athletes
We Were All Athletes: Women's Athletics and Title IX at the University of Nevada Reno is recently published book that describe the struggles and successes of the women’s athletics program at the University of Nevada from the 1960s onward. Through interviews conducted by the University of Nevada Oral History Program in 2007-08, former student athletes, coaches, university administrators and others tell the remarkable story of women’s athletics at the University of Nevada. Copies of We Were All Athletes can be purchased online at http://oralhistory.unr.edu/books_detail_wwaa.asp or by calling or emailing (775) 784-6932 or unohp@unr.edu. |
 
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The University of Nevada sponsors 11 women’s varsity sports featuring more than 270 female student-athletes. The Wolf Pack women’s teams have won 11 Western Athletic Conference championships since joining the conference in 2000-01. Women’s athletics have a long tradition of success at Nevada including a national championship by the 1979 Wolf Pack women’s swimming and diving team, while Nevada’s female student-athletes have earned 140 All-America certificates and nine individual national championships.
