Yahoo! Sports, Star Tribune & MPR News quote LaVoi on UMD Hockey’s Miller Title IX violation accusation

Nicole M. LaVoi, Tucker Center Associate Director, 2013 imageThe UofMN Duluth’s outgoing hockey coach, Shannon Miller, has leveled an accusation of a Title IX violation against her dismissal and has hired a lawyer who won the largest Title IX settlement in US history. Three articles on Miller’s accusation—Yahoo! Sports‘ “Shannon Miller hits Minnesota-Duluth with Title IX accusation after dismissal,” the Star Tribune‘s “Minnesota Duluth women’s hockey coach Shannon Miller says dismissal violates Title IX,” and MPRNews’s “At UMD, a face off over gender, money, sports“—all quote Dr. Nicole M. LaVoi, faculty in the School of Kinesiology and the associate director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport. LaVoi’s research includes a series of reports on employment patterns of women coaches of women’s sports.