In fall 1976 funding for 10 scholarships ($25,000) was provided for women’s athletics. The basketball program received four; swimming and track each received two and one-fourth; tennis received one; volleyball received one-half. Ann Baker (Furrow) was the first woman to hold an athletic scholarship in 1964 and 1965 when she played on the men’s varsity … Continued

The first trophy awarded to a UT women’s athletic team was the first place trophy won by the volleyball team in 1959 at the East Tennessee State University’s invitational volleyball tournament. Female students in the UT Physical Education Department asked their instructor, Jean Wells, to take them.

See Barbara Blount Hall.

In spring 1994 the golf team fired a 311 in the final round of the Lady Gamecock Classic, giving the team its first-ever team tournament championship. The number 12 Tennessee three-day total of 901 set a team record for 54 holes, while their first-round score of 294 set a UT women’s record for 18 holes.

On July 17, 2002, alumna and former Lady Vol basketball player Vonda Ward defeated Monica McGowan of Tyler, Texas, for the world’s first women’s heavyweight boxing title offered by the International Boxing Association.

Appointed in 1900 Anne Gibson was the first physical education teacher for women. Prior to this, on certain days of the week, women were admitted on sufferance to the university gymnasium, where they could use the basketball courts and other equipment.

When women were readmitted to the university in 1893, the acting dean of women, Angie Villette Warren Perkins, assisted them to form a student government organization, which was named The Woman’s League of the University of Tennessee. The constitution of the organization was published in 1895.

Paul Russell Haley, a UT psychology major, was one of the one hundred students chosen to receive the first Woodrow Wilson National Fellowships in the inaugural year of the grants, 1970.

Student maintenance fees and tuition first exceeded state appropriations in 2011.

In 1991 University Studies 1000 (now First Year Studies 101: The UT Experience) was transferred as a one-credit course from the University Studies Program to what is now the Student Success Center, forming the nucleus of introduction to the institution and personal growth as a college student for entering freshmen. A companion course, First Year … Continued