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Pictured: (from left to right) Seated: Mike Hopkins, Taylor Hopkins, Pam Hopkins Standing: Ted Hickey (FZN Activities Coordinator), Joe Sutton (FZN Principal)
FZN Senior Taylor Hopkins recently committed to Tulsa University, located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she will participate in row for the Golden Hurricane. A relative newcomer to the sport, Hopkins has been a two-year member of the St. Louis Rowing Club. The club trains at Creve Coeur Park in St. Louis County. Hopkins took up rowing after encouragement from her mother, who was acquainted with several members of the St. Louis Rowing Club. Hopkins quickly took to the sport, and this Spring participated in the Midwest Championships where her team finished in 3rd place. In addition to excelling in rowing, Hopkins is an excellent student who sports an impressive 4.5 GPA, ranking her in the top ten percent of the Class of 2021.
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Jean Minnick has been a force for change in the lives of young women at Davis & Elkins College and other female collegiate athletes across West Virginia.
Title IX was passed in 1972 just two years after Jean earned her PhD in physical education at New York University. Dr. Minnick knew she needed to help change happen for athletic girls, and it would not be easy in a small town private college. Nevertheless, she made it happen with persistence, patience and pizazz.
She was a well-educated woman in a man’s world where she was not getting equal pay for equal work. She earned her way up in the institutional hierarchy where men were usually the department chairs, and most people thought girls should be cheerleaders not athletes with good scholarships.
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