This paper is about Addressing the unfairness to women in the NCAA specifically how dance programs aren’t a part of the NCAA and are treated poorly compared to other sports teams. You can have one section just about dance and the other sections be about women’s sports in general.I have a student example attached along with an interview I conducted with the UNLV head director of development for the rebel athletic fund which I need you to use in the paper to quote her in APA style at some point or more.
Here are some sources you can use in the paper:
https://statenews.com/article/2023/03/women-winning-in-front-of-no-one-students-say-female-ncaa-athletes-under-appreciatedLinks to an external site.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kimelsesser/2021/10/27/more-bad-news-for-female-athletes-according-to-ncaa-investigation/?sh=287abf1f794fLinks to an external site.
https://medium.com/digital-social-writing/inequities-within-the-ncaa-college-dance-teams-are-begging-to-be-recognized-be6e6795f7f1Links to an external site.
https://thesimpsonian.com/26425/opinion/editorial-why-dance-should-be-considered-an-ncaa-sport/Links to an external site.
Here are some quotes you can use in the paper:
“Overall, women in sports are treated completely differently,” Guerrero said. “They get less attention … they get fewer resources.”
“I think that men get a lot of favoritism when it comes to watching and promoting the sports,” Kuo said.
“It is when those sports have women’s counterparts that we observed the greatest disparities and resulting gender inequities,” KHF authors conclude.
“Even at universities sporting 3, 4, and 5-time (or more) national champion dance teams, team members have to pay to participate in team activities, fundraise to compete, and do not get full benefits of athletes such as athletic training, recovery, or nutrition services.”
Catherine Berry, in her article from The Charger Online, notes that “The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has served to block recognition of dance as a sport because it views dance primarily as a support to other sports. Its definition of sport penalizes teams that serve other teams by limiting “sports” to activities whose sole purpose is competing. Even with this outdated definition, the modern iteration of high school and college dance teams exist to compete, not just to support other sports, and thus fall within this definition of sport.”
“Since dance is not considered a sport by the NCAA, it does not get enough funding to enter more competitions.”
