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Item “You Throw Like a Girl!”: A Sociological Analysis of Media Representation and Viewership of Women’s Sports(Honors Program, The University of Tampa, 2020-11-09) Maziarz, Tiffany A.Motivated by the sociological theories of Symbolic Interactionism and Contemporary Feminism, this research explores the intersections of gender, the media, and sports on a southeastern college campus. Undergraduate students were recruited from various sections of Introduction to Sociology to complete a 38-question survey administered through Qualtrics. The final sample size was 85 (n = 85). Bivariate analyses were conducted using RStudio and SPSS simultaneously, and any relationship that was found to be significant (p = .05) was analyzed using a Cramer’s V coefficient test to determine the strength of association. Trends that stood out in the research were 1) There are differences in perspective between men and women college students; 2) There are not many differences in opinion between those who participate in sports and those who do not; and 3) There were differences between viewership frequency (this could also be tied to the amount of sports coverage watched by each gender, however, multivariate analysis was not conducted).