The third annual event will give young females opportunities to try 25 different sports and meet women’s pro athletes.
Athletes show off their “Girl Power” at 2023’s Play Like a Girl+ Piedmont event, which will return this year on May 5. The three-hour interactive event featuring 25 sports will be held at Piedmont High School's Witter Field and is open to girls ages 2 through 18. Play Like a Girl+ Piedmont is entirely free and provides opportunities to practice a wide variety of athletic skills such as throwing, running, hitting, passing, fielding, shooting, kicking and more.
City staff, volunteers and participating amateur, club, Olympic and professional women athletes contribute expertise in basketball, softball, rowing, rugby, swimming, tennis, soccer, track and field, lacrosse, boxing and other sports to Play Like a Girl+ Piedmont. Science-backed research has concluded that athletic mental conditioning — team building, self-control and emotional regulation — has a positive impact that carries beyond the K-12 school years and into adulthood.
While cautious about overemphasizing the social aspects, as if girl athletes need them more than boy athletes, Phalen does suggest that with all the negativity made possible by anonymity on some social media platforms, girls benefit greatly from the close, supportive relationships that develop within teams.
“The community has really entered in and wanted girls sports to be a part of the curriculum in the K-12 schools. They had a speaker series to highlight the amazingness of women in sports. Beyond the schools, the film group in town showed documentaries and had us come to speak. They spread the net wide.
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