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Deborah A. Yow

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Director of Athletics, North Carolina State University

Yow, a former head coach, became the first in NCAA history to lead three previously unranked women’s basketball teams — Kentucky, Oral Roberts and Florida — into the Top 20. When she joined the University of Maryland, she became the Atlantic Coast Conference’s first female athletics director. She previously served as athletic director at Saint Louis University and the University of Maryland.

A New Track: Fostering Diversity and Equity in Athletics
American sport has always served as a platform for resistance and has been measured and critiqued by how it responds in critical moments of racial and social crises.
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A New Track: Fostering Diversity and Equity in Athletics