He said ‘you can’t run officially on the team, it’s against the NCAA ( National Collegiate Athletics Association ) rules in collegiate sports, but you can come out and work out with the team if you want to, we would welcome you’ and that was a joke because he never thought I would show up, but I did”, Switzer explained. She asked the coach of the men’s cross-country team if she could participate with them, as there were no girls' sports teams. Once you got to university, it was all over for girls.” said Switzer. I had been running, I had been playing field hockey, but that was going to be it.
“I knew I was never going to be allowed to be an athlete. A woman becoming a professional athlete seem ed impossible at the time. She wanted to be a sports journalist, as it seemed to be her only way to work in the sports industry.
Switzer was studying journalism at Syracuse University. I realised ‘I'm going to change the system’, and that’s when it became political to me”. At this point, I realised other women would be there if they only had opportunities.
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