{"id":4801,"date":"2023-01-04T12:06:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T17:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.alumni.ncsu.edu\/?p=2654"},"modified":"2024-02-01T16:22:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T21:22:31","slug":"the-womens-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.ncsu.edu\/2023\/the-womens-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"The Women\u2019s Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When the NC State women\u2019s cross-country team won the NCAA championship in Tallahassee, Fla., in 2021, part of the crowd there to cheer them on were members of the women\u2019s soccer team. The soccer team had lost a second-round game in the NCAA tournament\u2009\u2014\u2009the fifth consecutive year the team had made it that far in the tourney\u2009\u2014\u2009in Tallahassee the day before, but stuck around to support their fellow women athletes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For many NC State coaches, athletes and athletics administrators, that moment captured the synergy and energy they hope will lead to more Wolfpack championships. \u201cIt brought together the vision of what we\u2019re trying to achieve here at NC State,\u201d says Michelle Lee, the chief of staff and senior women\u2019s administrator for the university\u2019s athletics department. \u201cIt showed women\u2019s soccer that it can be done. That was a pretty incredible moment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There have been plenty of incredible moments for many of the women\u2019s teams at NC State over the past few years. Wolfpack fans celebrated in March when Raina Perez \u201922 stole the ball and scored to give NC State the lead in the final seconds of a game against Notre Dame in the NCAA tournament to move on to the Elite Eight. And in May, fans heard that tennis players Jaeda Daniel \u201921 and Nell Miller won the NCAA doubles championship\u2009\u2014\u2009the program\u2019s first-ever national championship. Again and again, the Belltower was lit red as women\u2019s teams earned championships at the national level\u2009\u2014\u2009both team and individual\u2009\u2014\u2009and at the conference level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n