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Mleczko wasn’t the only Harvard name to earn a shout out at Wednesday night’s festivities. Harvard crew coach Harry Parker earned an emotional thank you from rowing legend Anita DeFrantz towards the end of her acceptance speech for the New England Women’s Fund’s 2002 Billie Jean King Pioneer Award...
...DeFrantz, a graduate of Connecticut College, was the first American woman and African-American woman to be elected to the International Olympic Committee in 1986, and in 1997 she became the organization’s first female vice president...
DeFrantz’s international rowing career began with the 1976 Olympics, the first year women’s rowing was offered. Parker was the coach who selected DeFrantz for that team...
...team, although it is unclear whether they have withdrawn due to positive drug tests or because they failed to meet national athletic qualifications. "This is a warning to all athletes who wish to come to the games with drugs in their system--stay at home," I.O.C. vice president Anita DeFrantz said after the news broke. "Do not come...if you are not coming clean...
...accounts for the U.S. women's sudden success? At least in part it's the result of social changes that no longer make it necessary for little girls to cut their hair to play ball. "In the 20 years since I competed, a great deal has changed," says Anita DeFrantz, a member of the bronze medal-winning U.S. rowing team in 1976 and now one of two American members of the International Olympic Committee. "The way society views women has changed for the better. Funding for sports has changed for the better. And the potential for women to survive...