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When the day finally came that she would break down a huge professional barrier, Robin Herman did not have much time to prepare. Herman, then a 23-year-old reporter for The New York Times, had been trying for a year to persuade N.H.L. teams to allow her and other female reporters access to athletes in the postgame locker room when, unexpectedly, the two coaches at the 1975 N.H.L. All-Star Game in Montreal said, yes, women would be given the same access as men.If it happens on ice and it involves hitting and scoring, The Times Slap Shot blog is on it.Go to the Slapshot Blog “Immediately, reporters started asking me, ‘Are you going to do it?’ ” Herman said. “I had been lobbying for this for a long time, so when the opportunity presented itself, I said I’d better do it.”So, 35 years ago, Herman and another woman — a Montreal radio reporter, Marcel St. Cyr — gathered with other reporters after the game and walked in to conduct postgame interviews. Except she and St. Cyr instantly became the news, and television cameras swung to them. They were believed to be the first women admitted to the locker room of a North American professional sports team.“I kept saying, ‘I’m not the story; the game is the story,’ ” Herman said, reflecting on the night. “But of course that wasn’t the case. The game was boring. A girl in the locker room was a story.”Herman, who is now the assistant dean for research communications at Harvard’s School of Public Health, has written about that night many times, including a first-person article in The Times a few weeks later. She was drawn back into the controversy as other sports faced their women-in-the-locker-room moments — most famously in the court case brought by Sports Illustrated so the reporter Melissa Ludtke could gain access to baseball clubhouses to cover the World Series in 1978 — and she wrote an Op-Ed article for The Times when the New England Patriots were harassing Lisa Olson, a reporter for The Boston Herald at the time.

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