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2008 Banquet Speaker - Dr. Patricia Griffin

Pat Griffin is Director of It Takes A Team! Education Campaign for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Issues in Sport (www.ittakesateam.org), an initiative of the Women’s Sports Foundation.  ITAT develops and disseminates educational resources and programs focused on making sport a safe and successful experience for all athletes and coaches. Dr Griffin is also a Professor Emerita in the Social Justice Education Program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.  Her research and writing interests focus on heterosexism/homophobia in education, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teachers and students, and heterosexism/homophobia in athletics, with a particular interest in women's sports. Dr. Griffin has written a book entitled, Strong Women, Deep Closets: Lesbian and Homophobia in Sports, published by Human Kinetics, 1998.  She is also co-editor of Teaching For Diversity and Social Justice: A Sourcebook for Teachers and Trainers, Routledge, 2007.

For the past 25 years Dr. Griffin has led seminars on diversity issues and lesbian and gay issues in athletics at numerous colleges and universities as well as at coaches and athletic administrators’ association meetings around the United States and Canada.  She serves as an expert consultant on this topic for numerous articles in the press, on television and in periodical publications.  Dr. Griffin has appeared on ESPN Outside the Lines and Quite Frankly with Stephen A. Smith, HBO Real Sports and ABC Sports. In 2007 Dr. Griffin was named one of the top 100 sport educators in the United States by the Institute for International Sport and named a Woman of Honor by the University of Maryland in 2008.

Dr. Griffin played basketball and field hockey and swam at the University of Maryland and coached high school basketball and field hockey in Silver Spring, Maryland.   She also coached swimming and diving at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.  She was a member of the U.S. Field Hockey squad in 1971. She won a bronze medal in the triathlon at Gay Games IV in 1994 and a gold medal in the hammer throw at Gay Games V in 1998. She has had short stories and first person accounts selected for publication in Sportdykes: Stories from on and Off the Field, Tomboys: Tales of Dyke Derring-Do, A Whole Other Ball Game: Women’s Literature on Women’s Sport, Whatever It Takes: Women on Women's Sports.