And she was the first Indiana woman to become a certified master athletic administrator. She was the first woman president of the Indiana Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association. She was one of the first female athletic directors in the nation to oversee both boys and girls sports. She was the first woman on the board of the IHSAA. She did it quietly, behind the scenes with many never knowing her name. She was the woman who fiercely fought for girls high school sports in Indiana. And they did it only if there was a teacher or administrator or some adult who was willing to step up, for no pay, just hours devoted to equality.ĭillow was the woman who stepped up too many times to count. It was 1968, four years before Title IX and, if girls wanted to play sports, they did it through the Girls Athletic Association, not the IHSAA. Those two words didn't really go together when Dillow came on the scene at Ben Davis.
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