Tucker Center Newsletter - 2011 Spring
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Tucker Center Film Festival Sells Out!
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of National Girls and Women in Sports Day—and to honor and increase the visibility of female athletes—we recently hosted the first-ever Tucker Center Film Festival (TCFF). The sold-out event, featuring a sneak preview of Sony’s The Mighty Macs, was co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota’s Athletic Department as well as the Minnesota Lynx. Set against the backdrop of the feminist movement and the passage of Title IX in 1972, The Mighty Macs tells the inspiring true story of Immaculata (PA) College’s women’s basketball team, the efforts of their pioneering head coach Cathy Rush, and their amazing road to winning the first national championship in women’s college basketball.
Julie Lundquist, a coach for the Prior Lake Soccer Club who brought her girls’ soccer team to the event stated, “I don’t think our girls realized how far women’s sports have come in such a short amount of time. We will continue to have discussions regarding Title IX. The girls cannot even imagine not being allowed to play sports!” The Mighty Macs will open nationwide April 1st in conjunction with the Women’s Final Four. Check your local listings because you don’t want to miss this amazing film! And if you have a video or film you’d like to submit for next year’s event, contact Nicole LaVoi for more information [nmlavoi@umn.edu].