Idaho State University’s National Girls and Women in Sports Day Celebration Set Feb. 5 at Reed Gymnasium

Released by Idaho State University January 18, 2011
Contact: Call the ISU Department of Sport Science and Physical Education at 282-4852 or e-mail Tymeron Smith at turktyme@isu.edu, Megan Sanger at sangmega@isu.edu, Emily Klein at kleiemil@isu.edu, or Pat Peyton peytpat@isu.edu, for more information.

Idaho State University’s National Girls and Women in Sports Day
Celebration Set Feb. 5 at Reed Gymnasium

POCATELLO – The registration period is open for this year’s celebration in recognition of National Girls and Women in Sports Day that is scheduled from 8 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 5, at the Idaho State University Reed Gymnasium.
“Play, Believe, Achieve!” is the national theme for this year’s day and serves to acknowledge the importance of sport participation for women and girls. This is the 12th year ISU has hosted this event.
Idaho State University’s celebration will include sport and activity clinics for girls grades K-6. Advance registration is $10 per participant on a first-come basis. There is a limit of 300 girls. As of Jan. 18 more than 200 girls had already registered.
The preregistration deadline is Monday, Jan. 31. Check-in and on-site registration will take place beginning at 8 a.m. in the Reed Gym lobby. On-site registration costs $15 per girl, but registration will be capped at 300.
Girls will participate in three different sport/activity clinics, one every hour beginning at 8:45 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. Girls will rotate through a different sport/activity every 45 minutes. The sport and activity menu includes options ranging from basketball, volleyball and soccer, to rock climbing, kayaking, fencing, rodeo roping and dance, to name a few. Girls will receive ISU/NGWSD T-shirts.
Registration and consent/waiver forms are available at the ISU College of Education, the Graduate School, Department of Sport Science and Physical Education, and Campus Recreation’s Reed Gym office.
This national day has been proclaimed by Congress each year since 1987, and is honored annually the first week of February. National Girls and Women in Sports Day recognizes the progress of girls and women in sports, and the benefits that sport and fitness activities can bring to the lives of all girls and women.
Organizers anticipate more than 300 girls, grades K-6, will participate in 20 different sport and activity clinics lead by female ISU intercollegiate athletes, physical education majors, fitness/wellness students and instructors, faculty, staff and community members. More than 200 ISU faculty, staff and student volunteers will pool their energy and talents to bring this event to life.

When ISU debuted this event in 1999, about 100 girls participated. Over time, the event has grown and has a much higher visibility profile. This event has been proclaimed Idaho National Girls and Women in Sports Day by the mayors of Pocatello and Chubbuck, as well as statewide by Gov. C.L. Butch Otter.
The event is sponsored by various ISU entities including the Idaho State University Physical Education Major’s Club – SHEPERD’s (Students of Health Education, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance), the College of Education, the Graduate School, the Department of Sport Science and Physical Education, Health and Nutrition Sciences, Campus Recreation and the ISU Athletic Department. Another primary sponsor is the Girl Scouts of the Silver Sage Council.
For more information, contact the ISU Department of Sport Science and Physical Education at 282-4852, or e-mail Cynthia Pemberton at pembcynt@isu.edu, or Pat Peyton at peytpat@isu.edu.
More information is also available on the group’s ISU National Girls and Women in Sports Day Facebook site, http://www.facebook.com/idahostateu?ref=ts#!/pages/ISU-National-Girls-and-Women-in-Sports-Day/189249457232.
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