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| Jennifer Sterling brushes a coat of waterproof varnish on her
"Champions All" turtle outside the University of Maryland Golf Course. |
Doctoral student Jennifer Sterling's sculpture was designed to draw attention to
university sports clubs and teams that
don't get enough recognition.
Her sculpture, "Champions All," stands
outside the University of Maryland Golf Course. It's covered with is a collage of photos
displayed in chronological order, showing how sports have changed at
Maryland--from the desegregation of teams to the creation of women's teams.
The turtle also includes photos of world events that were happening while
the university's sports were changing.
"I wanted people to understand that sport doesn't exist in a vacuum,"
says Sterling, a kinesiology doctoral student and teacher's
assistant. "It exists in the context with what's going on in the rest of
the world."
She adds, "Sports [are] often the site where we can challenge these notions," but
they are also
"often the place where we reinforce what it means to be a man, what it means
to be privileged."
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