This year, the US federal law, which requires women and men to participate in the same occasions in school activities such as sports, is 50 years old.
This is part of federal law known as Title IX. This affects educational institutions such as schools and universities that receive money from the federal government.
One of the goals of the law is to give women and girls a fair opportunity to play sports at school and receive the same treatment as men and boys. As a result, many women who are good at sports were also able to receive financial support for the university.
The law also helps people from other countries.
For Maria Bulanova of Russia, Title IX means she was able to compete in bowling sports and earn money to attend a school at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
She was surprised to find out that the bowling team leader was “always from Russia”.
Branova was part of the Russian team at the 2015 Bowling World Cup in Las Vegas, Nevada. She did well enough coach I noticed her from the college bowling team. During the week of February 2016, she visited five US universities. She chose to attend Vanderbilt.
She said Vanderbild provided excellent education and the opportunity to join an excellent bowling team that could win the US college championship.
“Vanderbilt had both and it was perfect,” she said.
Bulanova is currently making bowling money at the Professional Women’s Bowling Association, and she master’s degree At St. Francis College in Brooklyn, New York. She also coaches the bowling team there.
National Championship
Branova was not the only international bowler for Vanderbild’s team to win the 2018 National Championship. Christine Kua from Singapore and Emily Rigny from Australia were also members.
John Williamson is a bowling coach at Vanderbilt. He said he considers his team a “success story.” His team is good at sports. The school also has a bowling team that allows young women to come to Tennessee and receive “world-class education” at Vanderbild.
He said the combination of good competition, the opportunity to play sports, and the opportunity to attend a good school is “one of the best of all.”
Kur was the first of the three international bowlers on the championship team to reach out to Vanderbilt. She sent an email to the university as a member of the Singapore Junior National Team. Williamson went to see her at the World Youth Championships of the year in Hong Kong. He also saw Branova and Rigny.
Williamson said Kua’s email was the starting point.
They were good at bowling, so Branova and Kua got money to help pay the school. This is a transaction called a scholarship.
Agencies help athletes get attention
For other international students who are good at sports, working in sports may be useful. agency..The agency is Promotion Athletes to the university you are looking for.
But the agency does the job in return for the payment. One such institution is the Boston-based USA College Sport. It is operated by Deljan Bregasi of Albania. He was a soccer player who began studying and playing sports in the United States when he was young.
He started his business in 2015. Since then, Mr. Bregashi said he has helped 300 students make money to go to college. He charges each student $ 3,200.
He started by working with boys who played soccer in Italy and Albania. After that, he added other sports and started working with young women in 2018.
“Sadly,” he said, the opportunity to use his abilities in sports to help pay for schools is not available to Italian girls.
He named Title IX “Fortunately …Allow They practice sports on scholarships. “
According to Bregasi, his agency is trying to help an Italian girl who plays volleyball and competes in athletics come to the United States.In the United States
Serena Frolli is a 17-year-old runner from Genoa, Italy. She plans to go to Chicago later this year to study at Northwestern University with the help of a sports agency. The school gave her a scholarship for her running ability. She belongs to the Northwestern University Athletics team.
She said it would be expensive to work for an agency, but her school costs were paid by the university, so it was worth it.
She said that thanks to Title IX, she didn’t have to choose between running a race or studying mechanical engineering. She wants to be an astronaut someday.
“Why should I choose?” She asked. “That’s why I go to America.”
Two college golfers have a similar story. One is Aline Krauter from Germany. The other is Taiwan’s Tsehanlin. They both came to school in the United States, so they continued to play sports and were well educated.
Clauter went to Stanford University in California and Lin went to the University of Oregon. The team finished first and second in the recent Women’s College Golf Championship.
Lin said he was grateful that Title IX gave him the opportunity to play golf and pay tuition.
“I don’t think I could get it anywhere else in the world,” she said.
This is Dan Friedel.
Dan Friedel adapted this story to VOA Learning English based on the Associated Press report.
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The words of this story
coach–N. A person who teaches and trains athletes and performers
master’s degree –N. The degree a university or university gives to a student is usually given after a year or two of additional study after a bachelor’s degree.
Promotion – V. To get people’s attention to something, they know more about it or want to participate in it
To give permission – V. Allow someone to do some activity
