LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Throughout the 2022-23 academic calendar year, Little Rock will be recognizing great moments and top female student-athletes that have worn the Maroon and Silver in its athletic history as part of the university's and Ohio Valley Conference's celebrations of the 50
th Anniversary of Title IX. Women's Basketball standout Chastity Reed is the latest Trojan to be recognized.
One of women's basketball's all-time greats, Reed helped build the Little Rock basketball program into the dynasty that it is today. Reed was a three-time All-Sun Belt Conference first team selection for the Trojans, being named the Sun Belt's Player of the Year and earning AP All-America Honorable Mention recognition in 2010.
Reed's name is listed throughout the Trojan record book as she is the program's all-time leading scorer, becoming the only player in program history to surpass the 2,000-point mark. Reed is also the program's all-time rebounding leader with 896 and ranks second all-time in career steals, sixth all-time in career assists and fifth all-time in career blocks.
Reed was a Regional Finalist for the State Farm Coaches All-America award in 2009 and 2010 and helped guide the Trojans to their first-ever NCAA tournament appearance. Following her playing days for
Joe Foley, Reed played in the WNBA for the Tulsa Shock and Phoenix Mercury before continuing her playing career overseas in Israel, Romania, Lithuania, Switzerland and most recently in Greece.
Title IX was a major law that prohibited federally funded schools from discriminating "on the basis of sex." It was signed into law on June 23, 1972, as part of a series of Educational Amendments. The full text of Title IX states:
"No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity."
Since the passage of Title IX, women's participation in college athletics has increased. Today, women make up 44% of all NCAA athletes (compared to 15% pre-Title IX, when fewer than 30,000 women played college sports).
The 50
th Anniversary of Title IX comes 90 years after the first recorded women's intercollegiate athletics team for the Trojans competed, when the school fielded a women's tennis team.
Since then, Little Rock women's athletic teams and student-athletes have combined to win:
- Two (2) team National Championships
- 10 Individual National Championships
- 26 team National Championship appearances
- Seven (7) Academic All-America honors
- 34 conference championships
You can read more about
Little Rock's Athletic history here.
The Celebrating IX Trojans series is presented by Simmons Bank, the official partner of Little Rock Trojans Women's Athletics.
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Celebrating IX Trojans
- Jaclyn Purvine, Soccer
- Edina Begic, Volleyball
- Chastity Reed, Women's Basketball
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