The Pam Borton Endowment for the Promotion of Girls and Women in Sport Leadership
The Pam Borton Fellowship was established in 2014. This fellowship honors Pam Borton's exceptional career as coach of Gopher Women's Basketball, as well as her encouragement to girls to reach their full potential. The fellowship's mission is to promote and support graduate students in the College of Education and Human Development who are:
- Studying kinesiology
- Pursuing research related to leadership, sport, and gender in conjunction with the Tucker Center
The Tucker Center Borton Fellows are graduate students who advance and amplify the Tucker Center's education, research, and outreach. The Fellows gain a unique, career-advancing experience with peers from around the country, world-class Tucker Center affiliated scholars, and Tucker Center faculty.
2022-2023, 2023-2024, 2024-2025 Borton Fellow
Anna Goorevich (she/her/hers) is a graduate student pursuing a PhD in Kinesiology/Sport Sociology at the University of Minnesota. Goorevich also serves as a research assistant in the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport. Previously, she was the 2021-2022 US-UK Fulbright Postgraduate Scholar at the University of Stirling in Scotland, where she received a master’s degree in sport management. Goorevich’s research interests revolve around the gendering of coaching and sport leadership, gender identity and sport participation, and menstruation and sport. Her previous research background has involved studies of coaching and gender essentialism, transgender athlete inclusion in sport, coach-athlete relationships surrounding menstruation, and gender inequity in youth soccer programs in the UK.
Past Pam Borton Fellows
- 2022-2023, Hannah Silva-Breen, MS
- 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022, Courtney Boucher, PhD
- 2017-2018, 2018-2019, Matea Wasend, MS
- 2016-2017, Caroline Heffernan, PhD
- 2015-2016, Marnie Kinnaird, MS