Title IX Compliance - Locker Rooms, Practice and Competitive Facilities
All facilities are reviewed for availability, quality and exclusivity of use. Practice and competitive facilities also are reviewed for preparation and maintenance, and maintenance of locker rooms is considered when it affects quality. The goal is to provide locker rooms, practice and competitive facilities of similar quality and suitability.
Several facility initiatives have been implemented to provide optimum practice and competition conditions, in addition to increased visibility for women's teams and improved recruiting. Practice and competitive facilities for men’s and women’s teams are of similar quality and suitability. The Target: Western Forward Facilities Initiative has addressed this principle. Since 2001, there have been 16 major athletics facilities renovations and only three (3) of these facility improvements have been specific to men’s programs (Baseball Stadium, Men’s Soccer Locker Room, Men’s Basketball Locker Room). All other facility enhancements have been specific to women and women’s sport programs or facilities shared equally by both women and men. Further, all past and future athletic facility enhancements will remain consistent with our efforts to become a completely gender neutral athletics department.
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