Disability in Sport It’s Our Time: from the Sidelines to the Frontlines (Title IX—B)

Abstract

This paper is based, in large part, on remarks expressed by the author in the concluding keynote address at the 2011 NCAA Scholarly Colloquium held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in San Antonio, TX on January 12, 2011. Special thanks are to my colleague, Dr. Richard Southall of the University of North Carolina for nominating me for this keynote speech entitled Disability and Sports and to both Dr. Jan Boxill of the University of North Carolina and Dr. Scott Kretchmar of Penn State University, as well as members of the NCAA Colloquium and Journal of Intercollegiate Sport Editorial Board who very kindly extended the invitation. It has been 12 years since I completed Race, gender, and disability: A new paradigm toward full participation and equal opportunity in sport (Fay, 1999) as my doctoral dissertation at the University of Massachusetts—Amherst. At the time, it was one of the first scholarly works that intentionally connected the issues of social justice, prejudice and discrimination for individuals with a disability as being similar to related issues based on race and gender. Since 1999, a number of academics and advocates have begun to address pervasive marginalization of athletes with a disability in sport from the perspective of fairness, equity and universal human rights