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...their first varsity games, freshmen Heather Sullivan and Polly Butler lay waste to their older opponents. Although sickness prevented Butler from touching a court for two weeks, her re-entry to Hemenway Gym was smooth. At fourth seed, she beat junior Pam Haas...
Crimson, 9-0 at Hemenway Gym...
After months of watching my roommates troop off to the gym each day and return looking robust and healthy, I decided it was time for me to give...
When Helen Reddy belted out her 1972 hit, she had no idea it would pump up women. Not only did the song become the unofficial anthem of the feminist movement, but women and girls seemed to take the words literally and headed off to the gym. In the two decades since, female attitudes toward fitness and athletics have undergone a vigorous shake-up. Across the country, women are working out, running hard, even pumping iron. And they are doing it not just to look attractive but also to gain strength and a sense of self-sufficiency. They have discovered...
Baby boomers led the change. Growing up with the feminist movement, they wanted not only to work alongside men on the trading-room floor but also to play alongside them on the gym floor. "I started working out to get stronger," explains Sidney Perry, 39, a Portland, Ore., wardrobe stylist. "I wanted to be my own person." Other previously nonathletic women were swept up by the more general fitness movement. "I used to think there were two classes of people: athletes and the rest of us," says Nancy Crichlow, 29, a sales assistant in Houston who now works out regularly...