DENVER – MSU Denver has for decades been a leader in providing equal opportunities for women in intercollegiate athletics.
 
Today is the 19th installment of a 52-part tribute by Roadrunners Athletics to pioneers and leaders in intercollegiate athletics at MSU Denver.

Each Thursday, a key female figure in Roadrunners athletics history will be recognized.
 
Today, soccer star Bridgette Leisure is featured.
 
Leisure was an All-Colorado Athletic Conference first team selection in both 1990 and 1991 who finished her career as the program's all-time leader in goals (49) and points (109) – she still ranks fourth in both categories. She set a single-season program record of 21 goals in the 1991 season – a mark that stood for 14 years – and she scored a program-record that still stands with five goals against Regis on Oct. 31, 1990. She had four career hat tricks.
 
She led the Roadrunners to the CAC regular-season and tournament championships in 1990 and was part of teams that went 39-25-6 during her career.
 
Title IX, the groundbreaking law prohibiting sex-based discrimination at schools that receive funding from the federal government, went into effect just over 50 years ago – on June 23, 1972.