Inspirational Motivational Speakers: Mary Alice Hill Women Motivational Speaker in Sports

Before Mary Alice Hill became the established women motivational speaker she is known to be, she was a track and field athlete aiming for the Olympics. She continued on to help other young and talented women athletes as a track and field coach to win the Olympics. Because of this feat, she was offered a job by the Colorado State University which was the beginning of her Athletic Director career to the Women’s Athletic department. She also became an athletic director in San Diego University which was a first at that time because of her gender.

As an Olympic sports trainer you need great strength of character as well as knowledge in order to craft athletes with talent into finely tuned athletic machines. Mary Alice Hill has successfully trained athletes at the collegiate level at Colorado State University and she has trained four record setting athletes on the Olympic level. In order to get athletes to buy into her coaching style and give her the best results Hill had to motivate and inspire her athletes to push themselves and get the best out of themselves.

An Athletic Director is an administrator in charge of coaches and athletic staff and oversees and coordinates all their work. Mary Alice Hill was the first woman Athletic Director in the entire country and lead the way for future female Athletic Director across the nation. The Athletic Director of a university is often the most visual and important member of an athletic department and Mary Alice Hill opened the door for women to be in that position.

The importance for strong female leaders in sports can not be stressed enough. Women athletics is often times overlooked and undervalued in modern day society and having strong female leaders like Mary Alice Hill has helped to progress women sports each and every year.

Mary Alice Hill was also struck a major victory for women sports in a landmark Title IX sexual discrimination case as well. Hill sued Colorado State University for unfairly not renewing her contract because of her outspoken advocacy for women athletics and women sports in general.

There are many benefits to listening to an inspirational speaker like Mary Alice Hill. Having your team or organization listen to such a motivational speaker will help motivate your team to do better and bond them together. Her character, her story, and her determination in the face of unfair practices will inspire all those who hear her words and help them succeed at life.

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