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A Historical View Of St. Cloud State University Women's Athletics, Anne E. Abicht May 2006

A Historical View Of St. Cloud State University Women's Athletics, Anne E. Abicht

Culminating Projects in Kinesiology

Since the late 1800s women have participated in some form of athletic activity on the St. Cloud State University campus. It was not until the 1960s that a women's intercollegiate athletic program was introduced to the SCSU campus by Fran Bleick and Gladys Ziemer. Since the 1960s, the SCSU women's athletics program has grown to support 11 teams, competing at some of the highest levels of athletic competition.

As women's athletics at SCSU continues to grow, it is important to have a documented history of the program so that future generations of male and female athletes will understand the significance …