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Podcast: HAZARD GIRLS
Episode: Sn. 4, #13 Rosemarie Heldrich Kiser: The Race to Women’s Rights in Sports with Emily’s Mom
Description: Women have always been perceived to be weaker and less physically capable than men and the freedom that today’s children have has taken many years to achieve. Today on Hazard Girls we are joined by Emily’s mom, Rosemarie Heldrich Kiser. Rosemarie was a female track runner in the 1960s; a time when women did not have a constitutional right to play sports in schools. Rosemarie shares what it was like to be a sportswoman during this time, how it felt to train in an all-male college team as a teenage girl, how she became a competitor, and her...