IX at 50: The Lady Vols Experience
Champion on the Track and in eLife: LaVonna Martin Floreal
This chapter flips the script and turns the spotlight on two-time track and field Olympian, 1989 UT alumna, and IX at 50 co-host LaVonna Martin Floreal. For LaVonna, her time at UT helped enable her NCAA and Olympic dreams, including a silver medal at the 1992 Barcelona Games. But it also reinforced how sports can empower women worldwide, to discover different places and people.
This chapter flips the script and turns the spotlight on two-time track and field Olympian, 1989 UT alumna, and IX at 50 co-host LaVonna Martin Floreal. For LaVonna, her time at UT helped enable her NCAA and Olympic dreams, including a silver medal at the 1992 Barcelona Games. But it also reinforced how sports can empower women worldwide, to discover different places and people.