Break Point: Two Minnesota Athletes and the Road to Title IX

Peggy Brenden, a senior, played tennis. Toni St. Pierre, a junior, was a cross-country runner and skier. All they wanted was a chance to compete on their high school sports teams. But in Minnesota in 1972, the only way on the field with the boys ran through a federal court-so that was where the girls went. Break Point tells how two teenagers took on the inequitable system of high school athletics, setting a legal precedent for schools nationwide before the passage of Title IX. Deeply resear...