An Ode to Title IX, on the Occasion of National Girls and Women and Sports Day

There once was a February day

to honor girls and women who play

Athletics and sports

on fields and on courts

Title IX having paved their way.

Sports builds tough bodies that fight

reaching for even greater heights,

Shaping girls with sharp minds

and hearts that are kind –

Confident leaders who know what is right.

Playing keeps health problems at bay,

And win or lose athletes learn ways

To set goals every season

Full of good reasons

To make them stronger women today.

And so on this day of honor

tell an athlete you know that you want her

to strive for the best

and remember to rest

‘cause we need her help to make Title IX stronger!

The author would like to note that she is by no means a poet, and apologizes for her feeble attempt at a limerick. She wrote her girls’ sports story last year, and wants you to know that if you share your story today, she promises never to write bad poems again!