MCLA Athletics Department to hold 20th Annual 'National Girls and Women in Sports04:50PM / Thursday, December 18, 2008
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. – The Department of Athletics at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) will hold its 20th annual celebration of National Girls & Women in Sports Day on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2009, from 12:15 – 7 p.m., beginning in the Amsler Campus Center gymnasium.
Girls in grades 3-8 and women (new this year!) are invited to this free event. Sports clinics for girls include soccer, basketball, softball, boxing, or a career in sports medicine workshop. Dinner, activities with various female student-athletes and staff, and attendance at the MCLA women’s basketball game versus Worcester State College at 5:30 p.m. also are included.
Women will be introduced to volleyball and pickle ball, and will attend the dinner and the women’s basketball game.
This celebration at MCLA is one of more than 1,000 events taking place across the country for National Girls and Women in Sports Day. Congress has proclaimed this national day each year since 1987. It recognizes the progress of girls and women in sports and the benefits that sports and fitness activities can bring to the lives of all girls and women. The NGWSD coalition members include the Girl Scouts of the USA, Girls Incorporated, National Association for Girls and Women in Sport, Women’s Sports Foundation and the National Women’s Law Center.
Interested participants must pre-register no later than Jan. 21, 2009. Space is limited. Go to www.mcla.edu/Athletics/ for a pre-registration form and the itinerary of the day. For more information, call Dot Houston, assistant director of athletics, at 413-662-5437 or 413-662-5411, or e-mail her at dhouston@mcla.edu . |
