Salute to Ted Kennedy by Women Athletes Everywhere!

COLUMN: Generations of vibrant American girls and women, as well as those from countries worldwide, will always be grateful to Senator Ted Kennedy, a beautiful skier, sailor, football and tennis player, for being a champion of women’s rights. He was pivotal in providing equality in education through Title 1X of the 1972 Education Amendments Act.

The law opened up millions of new opportunities in all educational endeavors, including sports, and therefore life. Thanks to the sporty women in his family, like sister Eunice, Special Olympics founder, he also knew that moms are key to getting American Families joyfully healthy. God bless Ted Kennedy!

— Bilie Jean King, Donna de Varona and Suzy Chaffee

BELOW:
(L-R) On the front lines of Title 1X with Sen. Ted Kennedy, were Women’s Sports Foundation legends Donna de Varona, here at DC’s Women in Sports Day. Photo: Women’s Sport Foundation…

…along with, below, (L-R) Billie Jean King and Suzy “Chapstick” Chaffee.
L-R Photo credits: Jonathon Xley, Sunny Griffin.

 

Images used with permission.

About Suzy Chaffee

Suzy Chaffee got world headlines ski racing in the '68 Grenoble Olympics, and as a child ballerina helped invent ski ballet to became World Freestyle Champion and star in Bogner's world hit "Fire & Ice." As the first woman on the USOC board she united world athletes to reform the Olympic rules; led the Title 1X March for Equal Opportunities for women in school sports; and is ski teacher for Presidents, corporations and Native youth. Chaffee co-founded the Native Voices Foundation in 1996, now called the Native American Olympic Team Foundation (NAOTF), which has inspired ski areas across North America to invite thousands of tribal youth back to their ancestral lands to ski and snowboard. That inspired their Elders to lead Gratitude Snowdances that have saved ski resorts from priceless droughts and given youth a chance at the 2012 London and 2014 Russian Olympics. © Suzy Chaffee. (Note: The opinions expressed by Ms. Chaffee do not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of this site or its publisher.)

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