Today, in the Women's Sports Foundation's "It Takes a Team" email, Harriet L. Schwartz writes about coach Rene Portland and Penn State's Broken Trust.

This story may be about a coach and her players, but this is not about athletics, it is about education. And it is about a broken trust.

The essence of this story is that Portland is an adult working on a college campus and she has created a hostile and intimidating environment for students, the very students for whom she is responsible. Stated even more simply, an educator has harassed students and she's getting away with it. As a career educator, I cannot comprehend that a university administration would allow this to continue.

The WSF also celebrates Title IX at 34 and, while noting several positive improvements in opportunities for female athletes to compete, points out that there's still a long, steep hill to climb:

Girls comprise 49 percent of the high school population, but only receive 41.7 percent of all athletic participation opportunities. In college the gap is even greater: women comprise 57 percent of the college student population but receive only 43 percent of the college athletic opportunities. Besides fighting for access to athletic participation opportunities, female athletes continue to face barriers in sport, such as in the treatment and benefits they receive when they do compete.