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National Champions! Title IX and the 1978 USU Volleyball Team: Introduction
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Introduction
On December 9, 1978, USU won its first national championship.
The women’s volleyball team defeated UCLA to take home the title in the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) championship game, making Utah State a powerhouse in women’s volleyball.
The culmination of years of hard work from players and coaches, the win also demonstrated the dramatically shifting landscape in women’s athletics in the late 1970s, the result of the passage of Title IX, which declared:
