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2002
Press Release
For Immediate Release
Contact: Becky Heidesch
January 20,
2002
Women'Sports Services
(714) 848-1201
Celebrating 30
years of Title IX
Southern California event is expected to be the largest in
the country
celebrating National Girls & Women in Sports Day
WHAT: Girls Sports
X-travaganza & Women's Health & Fitness Expo in
celebration of National Girls & Women in Sports. A record
crowd of up to # 7,500 is expected to attend and participate in
the one-day sports festival, which includes sports clinics,
women's seminars, exhibitors, athletic performances, fashion
show, father-daughter contests, music, and more! Community
members are invited to participate in the day's activities.
Clinics are staffed by elite athletes and local & national
coaches.
WHO:
- Layne Beachley, 4 time
World Champion Surfer
- Maybelle Blair,
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
- Ruthie Bolton-Holifield,
2 Time Olympic Gold Medalist, WNBA Sacramento Monarchs
- Kellee Booth, LPGA Tour
Player · Shirley Burkovich, All-American Girls Professional
Baseball League
- Crystl Bustos, Olympic
Gold Medalist Softball Player - Shortstop
- Cynthia Cooper, 4 time
WNBA World Champion, 2 time Olympian, WNBA Phoenix Mercury
Head Coach
- Sheila Cornell Douty, 2
time Olympic Gold Medalist Softball Player - First Baseman
- Pauline Crowley,
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
- Leigh Donovan, 2001
World Cup Mountain Bike Champion
- Dorothy "Snookie"
Doyle, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
- Tiby Eisen,
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
- Julie Foudy, WUSA San
Diego Spirit, 2 time Olympian, Women's World Cup
Soccer
- Jami Goldman,
Para-Olympian, Author · Kim Hamrock, 4 Time U.S. Women's
Surfing Champion
- Tara Koleski, WUSA San
Diego Spirit
- Annabelle "Lefty" Lee,
All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
- Jen O'Brien, #1 Pool
Skater / # 2 Vert Skater Internationally Ranked
- Cnan Omer, Pro Street
Skater
- Jessica Patterson,
Kawasaki Team Green
- Pearl Sinn, LPGA Tour
Player
- Sarah Straton,
Professional Beach Volleyball, Member of 2000 Australian
Olympic Team
- Rhiannon Tanaka, WUSA
San Diego Spirit · Dara Torres, 4 time Olympic Swimmer
- Tisha Venturini, WUSA
Champion San Jose Cyberrays player, Olympic Gold Medalist
- Ali Wood, Professional
Beach Volleyball
WHEN: Sunday, February 10,
2002 (10am - 5 pm)
WHERE: Edison Field,
Exhibition Center & Parking Lot (enter stadium through Gate
6)
Highlighted Events
- 9 a.m. -
10 CIF Girls & Women's
Sports Kick-off Breakfast Reception (invite only)
- 10
am
Doors open to the public Seminar: CIF / WISC Girls Sports
Career
- 11
am
Fashion Show Sports Clinics, Women's Golf Clinic, Fashion
Show & Autograph Session
Seminar American Express Financial Success
- 12
pm
Gale Webb's Extreme Sports Show
- 12:30
Basketball clinic with Cynthia Cooper
- 1
pm
Girls Sports Clinics with Professional Athletes, Girls Q
& A with athletes
Seminar: HeartSavers: Heart, Lungs & Body Scanning
- 2
pm
MAIN PROGRAM:
Awards Ceremony & Introduction of Athletes
OPTIMUM PHOTO OPPORTUNITY (all athletes)
- 3
pm
Women's Golf Clinic Gale Webb's Extreme Sports Show
- 4
pm
Final Autograph Session
OPTIMUM PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES: 12:30-3:30 pm
INTERVIEWS: ALL INTERVIEWS
MUST BE SCHEDULED IN ADVANCE. No interviews will be granted on
the event day without prior scheduling confirmation and
appropriate media credentials.
MEDIA CREDENTIALS: To
apply for media credentials, please call (714) 848-1201 for an
application, or log on to www.WomenSportsEvents.com for an
online application. All applications must be submitted by
February 5, 2002.
Interviews:
Great opportunities available before and after the event to interview athletes and event organizers:
Becky Heidesch &
Mary Lou Youngblood. (Please call to schedule, B-Roll of last year's event is available).
Facts:
- 1 in 27 girls participated in sports in 1972, 1 in 3 do today.
- For girls ages 6 to 11, the number of frequent participants (2 or more times per week) in 15 vigorous sports has increased 86% since 1987, from 2 million to 3.8
million.
- Girls who participate in sports get better grades and are more likely to graduate.
- Girls who play sports are less likely to get pregnant at an early age.
- Girls who participate in sports are less likely to use drugs or to stay in an abusive relationship.
- Girls who participate in sports experience greater self-esteem, increased self confidence and a more
positive body image.
- If a girl does not participate in sports by the time she is 10 years old, there is only a 10% chance she will be participating later in life.
- During the past 10 years the number of girls who play on high school teams rose 31%.
- Women 18-24 are the most active exercisers of any age group. Over the last 10 years, women's participation in fitness is up 77%.
- Women who participate in sports 4 or more times per week, decrease their chance of breast cancer by 60%.
- 80% of female Fortune 500 company executives participated in sports.
(Source: Sporting Goods Manufacturer's Association, National Federation of State High School Associations and Department of Education, Melpomene
Institute, Women's Sports Foundation.)
Contact:
Women'Sports Services
(714) 848-1201. For detailed event information log on to www.WomenSportsEvents.com.
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