Lost to history: Nebraska's three-peat college softball champions paid the price for equity

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Lost to history: Nebraska's three-peat college softball champions paid the price for equity

Nancy Gaarder
Jul 17, 2022
Updated Jul 17, 2022

"Load up," the coach said in disgust. "We’re going home."

On an April day in 1972, Ken Christensen threw his bat bag in the back of the team van and closed the door on John F. Kennedy College’s pursuit of a fourth straight Women's College World Series championship.

Nebraska officials had just ordered the softball powerhouse from little Wahoo off the field.

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"They tried to shame us,” said Cathy Buell, Kennedy College’s standout catcher.

Fifty years ago this spring — and two months before Title IX passed — controversy engulfed the now-defunct Nebraska college over its visionary winning ways. It had broken a significant barrier to women getting into college, and Nebraska wasn't ready.

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[niyad]

1. Thank you for this most fascinating, depressing piece of herstory.