![]() ![]() She asked the coach of the men’s cross-country team if she could participate with them, as there were no girls' sports teams. Once you got to university, it was all over for girls.” said Switzer. I had been running, I had been playing field hockey, but that was going to be it. “I knew I was never going to be allowed to be an athlete. A woman becoming a professional athlete seem ed impossible at the time. ![]() She wanted to be a sports journalist, as it seemed to be her only way to work in the sports industry. Switzer was studying journalism at Syracuse University. I realised ‘I'm going to change the system’, and that’s when it became political to me”. At this point, I realised other women would be there if they only had opportunities. ![]()
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