She is currently the CEO of Champion Women, an organization leading targeted efforts to advocate for equality and accountability in sports.

In 2012, she began working on legislative changes to ensure that club and Olympic sports athletes were protected from sexual abuse.

In 2018, the Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse and Safe Sport Authorization Act of 2017, which she co-wrote, was enacted.

Hogshead left home to train for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow with the University of Florida swim team, or FAST, while still in high school.

[citation needed] In 1981, Duke University red-shirted Hogshead after she was raped while running between campuses and suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder for several months.

[citation needed] In the fall of 1982, her coach persuaded her to return to the pool by offering her a scholarship and a position on the team if she merely showed up at the competitions.

[citation needed] In January 1983, Hogshead left Duke to train full-time for the 1984 Olympics in California.

She competed in the first event of the Games, the women's 100m freestyle, where she won in a tie-finish, with American teammate Carrie Steinseifer.

During the summer of 1985, Hogshead interned at the Women's Sports Foundation, at the urging of Donna de Varona.

Hogshead is a high-profile advocate of gender equity in sports and a specialist on Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.

degree from Georgetown University Law Center, Hogshead returned to Jacksonville for private practice at Holland & Knight, LLP.

The council provided Governor Charlie Crist with a state plan of action to promote physical fitness and nutrition, particularly among children.

In 2007, she co-edited the book Equal Play; Title IX and Social Change with economist Andrew Zimbalist.