by Ross Forman | The Windy City Times
Helen Carroll knows first-hand the value and importance—and certainly the potentially damaging consequences, especially on recruiting—of addressing discrimination in college athletics, especially related to sexual orientation, either actual or perceived.
She is a former college basketball coach, who claimed the NAIA National Championship in 1984 at the University of North Carolina-Asheville; and she later was a Division III athletic director for 12 years.
She is now the Sports Project Director for the San Francisco-based National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), a post she’s held for six years.
