The purpose of this study was to reveal Title IX fueled obstacles which prevent Black women from achieving equity in college sports. The researchers sought to provide a critical analysis of the synchronous burden of race and gender discrimination experienced by Black women in college sports. The study found this form of discrimination is unique to Black women as they experience sex discrimination similar to white women and race discrimination similar to Black men, but neither white women or Black men experience simultaneous forms of race and gender discrimination as Black women do (Crenshaw 1988; Mathewson; 1996). Title IX is a single-axis equity law which uses sex to factor discrimination, yet as Black women experience both race and gender discrimination synchronously this law does not protect Black women from discrimination in the way they experience it. Yet, examining the effectiveness of Title IX to prevent race and sex discrimination is problematic because even with the law, schools have not achieved gender equity in college sports  since its enactment in 1972 (Butler & Lopiano, 2003; Cooper & Newton, 2021;Kaplan, Hecker, & Fink, 2021; NWLC, 2022; Staurowsky, 2011; 2020; 2022). Another challenge is the NCAA Emerging Sports Program for Women uses a single axis lens to increase athletic opportunities for women. Therefore Black women are barred from benefiting from the increased access and athletic opportunities produced through the Emerging Sports program as it uses sex as a solo determinant to increase athletic opportunities. It is worth noting the extreme lack of research on Black women in sports has rendered Black women college athletes invisible in data on women’s sports (Butler & Lopiano, 2003; Carter-Francique & Flowers, 2013; Cooper & Newton, 2021; McDowell & Carter-Francique, 2017; Pickett et al, 2012; Staurowsky et al., 2021; 2022). This adds to the complexity of examining forms of discrimination experienced by Black women in college sports. The study found racial clustering, the single-axis lens of Title IX, and NCAA gender equity programs collectively provide harm to Black women in college sports and uniquely attack their ability to achieve equity in college sports.

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The natural environment is a central issue in both academic and wider societal discourse. The global sport industry is not immune from this discussion and has to confront its responsibility to reduce its impact on the natural environment. This book goes further than any other in surveying both the challenges and the opportunities presented to the sports industry as it engages with the sustainability agenda, exploring the various ways in which sport scholars can integrate sustainability into their research. With a multidisciplinary sweep, including management, sociology, law, events, and ethics, this is a ground-breaking book in the study of sport.Drawing on cutting-edge research, it includes over thirty chapters covering all the most important themes in contemporary sport studies such as:• climate change, sustainability, and corporate social responsibility • ethics, governance, and the law • event management, tourism, and pollution • marketing, branding, and consumer behavior First published 2018 by Routledge

Physical activity (PA) is associated with lower cognitive decline and incident dementia for older adults. Yet, PA data (interventions) on older African American (AA) women, a population disproportionately affected by premature aging, are lacking. This limitation reduces the efficacy of PA to reduce cognitive decline, particularly for people of color and more so women of color whose race and gender create unique spaces for PA engagement. Although AA women desire to engage in PA, they face social, structural, and behavioral barriers to PA, challenges that parallel those faced in preventing premature aging (Li et al., 2018). Extant literature on AA women’s PA investigates social determinants of health (SDoH) and calls for more attention as to how these factors intertwine to shape these women’s PA over time (Fleury & Lee, 2006). Culturally responsive physical activity programs (CRPA) offer a framework for addressing these factors synergistically to promote PA in a way that is desirable to AA women. Specifically, CRPA provides a strength– based approach to explicate the ways PA can redress social, structural, and behavioral causes of cognitive decline and barriers to PA (cf., Joseph et al., 2020). The purpose of this poster is to explore the benefits of CRPA interventions on preventing cognitive decline. Implications include refining current models of PA as premature aging prevention measures by increasing our knowledge of the sociocultural factors shaping AA women’s aging and PA behavior and providing greater insight into the mechanisms for recruiting and retaining AA women into PA- based cognitive decline interventions.

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