DENVER – MSU Denver has for decades been a leader in providing equal opportunities for women in intercollegiate athletics.
 
Today is the 33rd 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, basketball star Jaelynn Smith is featured.

Smith's name is all over the MSU Denver record books – she's fourth all-time in scoring (1,373 points), first in assists (553), first in free throws made (487), second in free throws attempted (643), third in minutes played (3,679), fourth in steals (186), ninth in field goals made (417) and the point guard is even 10^th in rebounds (643).
 
She holds the program record with 29 points in the second half of a Dec. 15, 2018, game against Colorado Mesa, and she set a single-game program record with 14 assists on March 1, 2019, when she became just the second player in program history to record a triple-double, as she also had 18 points and 10 rebounds.
 
Smith was a three-time All-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference selection, making the first team as a senior in 2018-19 after twice earning second-team nods.

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.