[6] Shadduck lobbied the school's athletic department to transition Drake's women's basketball from six-on-six to the traditional five-player teams.
At the time, only Iowa and Oklahoma still restricted women to playing the six-by-six variant of the game, and Shadduck argued that this was incorrectly based on the idea that "girls could only run half a court... (and) couldn’t throw that far."
[5] She is credited as being one of the main drivers in changing Iowa's women basketball competitions to conform to national standards.
[7] Shadduck also argued for more female hires and better pay equality, saying that: "While Iowa was ahead of other states, sexism continues in the number and salaries of women coaches and in media coverage".
[5] Based on this experience, Shadduck enrolled in law school and passed the Iowa Bar exam in January 1977 on her first attempt.
[1] She was known for pioneering the practice of getting expert testimony from economists to assess the economic value of a homemaker in a marriage for divorce cases.