Title IX at Trinity (Continued)
During interviews with Caroline Keener and Justin Parker both Trinity graduates and current employees of the Trinity Athletic Department, did not remember much about Title IX affecting Trinity because they attended in the early 2000’s. However, Ms.Keener pointed me in the direction of Sylvia Finch, the Business Manager for the Athletics Department. Sylvia Finch has held the position as the business manager for over 30 years and has clearly seen the changes in finances as the years have passed. She proceeded to tell me that she didn't have the reports from that far back, and if she did that she wasn't sure if I could see them because of confidentiality reasons. I proceeded to tell her it was for a class and she began to feel more comfortable talking with me about it. She told me that when she had just started there Trinity was just conforming to the Title IX regulations, and even then there were multiple inequalities. That was during the early 1980’s, incase I haven't mentioned before Title IX was passed in 1972. Mrs. Finch spoke to me with a passion, clearly indicating that this was still a sore subject for her so many years later. She gave me a little bit of background of the coaches when she first started, “ if you were a female coach coaching a female sport you would obviously get paid significantly less than a male coaching a male sport" (Personal interview, 2016). What I thought was interesting though was that if you were a male coach coaching a female sport, you would be paid significantly less than a male coaching a male sport simply because the funding was not there.