Bucknell University Athletics
Bucknell to Celebrate 30 Years of Women's Athletics in Conjunction with National Girls and Women in Sports Day
1/12/2004 7:00:00 AM | General
Feb. 2, 2004
LEWISBURG, Pa. -- With National Girls and Women in Sports Day slated for Wednesday, February 4, Bucknell has scheduled a weeklong array of events in conjunction with this year's "Play Fair" theme. Co-sponsored by the Bucknell Women's Resource Center, the celebration is also a tribute to 30 years of women's athletics at Bucknell.
Two special guest speakers on campus this week will be Tim Wierman of Nutrition Education Services, Inc., who will make a lunchtime presentation on nutrition to Bucknell student-athletes, and swimming legend Nancy Hogshead-Makar, who will give a historical perspective on women's athletics at Bucknell's monthly women's sports luncheon.
Several women's athletic competitions will take place later this week, including a Patriot League basketball game against American and the Bison Open track & field competition.
There will also be a special screening of "Playing Unfair" in the Langone Center Forum on Feb. 2 at 7:30 p.m.
Admission to the Feb. 7 women's basketball game against American will be free to girls and boys 12 years old and younger, and there will be pregame face painting, snacks and tee-shirt giveaways, as well as a postgame autograph session with members of each of Bucknell's women's sports teams. At halftime, Bucknell's women athletes will be recognized, and past women athletes of the month will be honored.
Bucknell fielded its first varsity women's teams in the sports of basketball and field hockey in the fall of 1973. Thirty years later, Bucknell fields 14 varsity teams and has captured the Patriot League's women's overall sports championship trophy nine times in 13 years.
Girls in Sports Spirit Award
For the first time, Bucknell will recognize an outstanding local athlete with the Girls In Sports and Spirit Award. Do you know an outstanding female athlete that has a winning attitude as well? Nominations are now being accepted for the Girls in Sports and Spirit Award. The winner will be announced at halftime of the Bucknell-American women's basketball game on Feb. 7.
The award is intended to recognize girls ages 8-13 in the Susquehanna Valley who have excelled in sports and succeeded in life. Nominations, including name, age, school, sport recognition and reason they should be awarded a Girls in Sports Award should be e-mailed to csperry@bucknell.edu, faxed to (570) 577-1660, or mailed to Colleen Sperry, Davis Gym, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837.
Following is the schedule of events for Bucknell's recognition of National Girls and Women in Sports Day.
National Girls and Women in Sports Day "Play Fair" and Bucknell Celebration of 30 Years of Women's Athletics
February 4th, 2004
Events:
1/31
Bucknell women's swimming & diving vs. Lafayette
Time: 2:00 PM
Location: Kinney Natatorium
Members of the Bucknell SAAC will be distributing NGWSD ribbons.
1/31
Bucknell women's track & field at Bison Open
Time: all day
Location: Gerhard Fieldhouse
2/1
Bucknell women's basketball Game vs. Holy Cross
Junior Bison Club Day and Cheerleaders' Day
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: Sojka Pavilion
2/2
Showing of video "Playing Unfair"
Time: 12 PM and 7:30 PM
Location: 12 PM at Women's Resource Center Lounge and 7:30 PM at LC Forum
This film compares media coverage of women's and men's sports in order to stimulate debate among women and men, athletes and non-athletes about the meaning of these images in world transformed by the presence of women in sport (30 minutes).
2/3
Speaker: Women's Sports Nutrition Expert, Tim Wierman
Times: 11:45 AM (varsity student-athletes only); 4 PM (open session)
Location: 4 PM at Hunt Hall Formal Living Room
The Department of Athletics & Recreation will bring in Tim Wierman of Nutrition Education Services, Inc. as a guest speaker for a National Girls and Women in Sports Day event. Mr. Wierman will craft a presentation that is tailored to female athletes on how they may better fuel their body for their sport and for the classroom while in the dining hall, off-campus, and while eating out. He also speaks on current issues with safe weight loss (or gain) and eating disorders. Open to both men and women.
2/5
Women's Sports Luncheon - guest speaker, Nancy Hogshead-Makar
Times: 11:45 AM (at women's sports luncheon); 7:30 PM (open session with reception to follow)
Location: 11:45 AM at LC Terrace Room
At age 14, Nancy Hogshead was the only American swimmer to be number one in international competition in 1977. A year later Hogshead left home to train for the 1980 Olympics. She qualified for the team, but the boycott of the Games kept her home. Later, at Duke University, she shattered nearly every school record. Since retiring from swimming, Hogshead-Makar has been a high profile advocate of gender equity in sports. She is one of the nation's foremost proponents of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, particularly within the context of intercollegiate sports. She is a former President of the Women's Sports Foundation (1992-94) and currently serves on its Board of Stewards. She has testified in Congress numerous times on the topic of gender equity in athletics and has served on two Presidential Committees. She has been a frequent guest on national news programs on the topic of sports and gender equity. In private practice at Holland & Knight LLP, she represented student-athletes and universities in Title IX matters with the primary goal of achieving legal compliance.
2/7
Bucknell women's basketball game vs. American
Youth Day
Time: 1 PM
Location: Sojka Pavilion
Free admission to children 12 and under. Prior to the game there will be youth activities, such as face painting and poster making. At halftime Bucknell women athletes of the month will be recognized. After the game members of each of Bucknell's women's sports teams will participate in an autograph session.
