CIAA Honors Current & Former HBCU Administrators as Title IX Trailblazers

CHARLOTTE, NC (January 20, 2023) — In continued celebration and acknowledgment of the 50th Anniversary of Title IX, the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA), the nation's oldest historically Black athletic conference, is recognizing five current and former administrators that have helped shape the CIAA and/or HBCUs, as a whole. These women are just five of a total of 50 CIAA Title IX Trailblazers, who will be recognized during the 2023 CIAA Men's and Women's Basketball Tournament, which will be held from February 21-25 at the CFG Bank Arena in Baltimore, MD. Anne Little and Sherie Cornish Gordon spent time as administrators inside the conference office before becoming leading HBCUs as an Athletic Director. Monique Smith and Suzette McQueen were both Associate Commissioners for the CIAA and continue to make a positive impact on sports and women's athletics. With the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, Sonja O. Stills has spent over two decades shaping an entire HBCU conference and now that she is the first female commissioner in the conference's history, Stills continues to blaze a trail that reverberates outside of the MEAC and outside of just HBCUs.
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