Margaret Stender Research Paper

Margaret Stender grew up in Alexandria, Virginia and Atlanta, Georgia. She grew up in Alexandria, moved to Atlanta for six years, then moved back to Alexandria where she then lived from seventh grade until she graduated high school. She has one sister who is three years younger than her, her father worked full time as a national archivist for the government, and her mother was a nurse. She attended all all girls private school in Alexandria, St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School, then she went to the University of Richmond where she got a duel degree in history and education, and she got an MBA from the University of Virginia. However, Ms. Stender is best known as the president and founding CEO of the Chicago Sky (Chicago’s WNBA Team) and the co-owner and co-founders of Flow Basketball Academy. Ms. Stender doesn’t remember what exactly sparked her interest in sports. She recalls that she loved to, “be outside and to run and to play and to jump.” The more she practiced and played, the better she felt, and so she

Stender didn’t fly around the country like how many students do today. She stayed fairly close to home at the University of Richmond. At Richmond, she played field hockey, basketball, and lacrosse. She attended college just as Title IX was getting implemented into schools, so for the first two years of her college career. Title IX called for equality among women and men in universities in the US. It was passed in 1972, but Ms. Stender didn’t really see it’s impact until her junior year– 1976. That year, her basketball team was finally given some of the same treatment that the men’s team was. The biggest thing that she remembers was that the team got new matching shoes, and the team then went on to win their next ten games. Ms. Stender was also the first woman at Richmond to get an athletic scholarship, it was only a partial scholarship, and she was already enrolled at the school, but it is still quite an amazing