January 29, 2006 - Rider Celebrates National Girls and Women in Sports Day
The Rider Athletics Department celebrated National Girls and Women in Sports Day on Sunday, January 29 with the theme "Remember, Celebrate, Build". The day's festivities began with a breakfast for Rider's female student-athletes in the atrium of the new Student Recreation Center on campus and featured a keynote address by Mika Ryan, chairwoman of the Mercer Sports Organizing Committee (MSOC). The Mercer Sports Organizing Committee is working in conjunction with Rider University and the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference to plan the 2006 NCAA Women's Basketball First and Second Rounds being held at Trenton's Sovereign Bank Arena on March 19 & 21.
After the breakfast, about 100 girl scouts from the Delaware-Raritan Girl Scout Council were treated to a basketball clinic with the Rider women's team and then took part in an all-sports clinic featuring student-athletes from eight of Rider's other sports programs. The young girls were introduced to the basic skills of cheerleading, field hockey, soccer, swimming & diving, volleyball, softball, tennis and track & field.
The day concluded with the women's basketball game vs. Fairfield where each of Rider's women's teams was honored at a timeout for their accomplishments.
"National Girls and Women in Sports Day is a wonderful tradition at Rider University," said Nancy Roberts, Senior Woman Administrator. "We wanted to showcase all of our women's teams so we altered our program this year and included an all-sports clinic for the first time. We received so many positive comments from our student-athletes who were involved as well as the parents of the young girls who participated that we're already looking forward to making it even better next year."
