SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) – Mount Holyoke College celebrated National Girls and Women in Sports Day by holding a special event on Saturday.
The event, for athletes 5-13 and their families, was to celebrate skill and the unifying power of sports.
It featured various clinics from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. followed by a basketball game at 1 p.m. between Mount Holyoke and Emerson.
We spoke with the Mount Holyoke’s head soccer coach, Breena Proctor, who told us more about what the event is about.
“It’s about getting kids exposed to different sports and hoping that they have a lot of fun and really getting them to do it as a lifelong adventure at different levels,” she told us.
We also spoke with Robin Hart, Mount Holyoke’s Assistant Athletic Director, who told us more about the benefits of girls and women playing sports.
“When kids and girls and women find their thing, particularly when it’s in sport, it has a very powerful place for them as individuals then going into their life and college or high school even, and then into the workforce as well,” she emphasized.
Hart finished by saying the reason her and Proctor do what they do, is because of the positive impact sports had on them growing up.
Copyright 2025. Western Mass News (WGGB/WSHM). All rights reserved.
发表回复