Thank again for your generous contribution to our work! We are excited to share information about a pilot program that we ran this summer in partnership with the Anderson Monarchs, called Strong Girls Sports Camp (SGSC), which your contributions supported.
The goal of SGSC was to proviide a girl-centric environment that allowed our participants to learn new sports, gain confidence and make friends! SGSC ran two nights/week for five weeks and served over 75 girls! And because of you, it was completely free! Every Tuesday night, the girls practiced soccer with Head Coach Raenah, a Division I women's player, and a team of amazing coaches made up of volunteers and teens from local sports-based youth development programs. On Thursday nights, we introduced the girls to new sports, such as lacrosse, rugby and volleyball. The girls had the opportunity to work with the Philadelphia Women's Rugby Club, Temple Women's Volleyball Team and PGIM's in house lacrosse staff, which is led by Danielle Gibson, a former Division I women's lacrosse player at Ohio State. The girls even got to meet & learn from Kris Thomas, a women's rugby player that has represented the USA as an olympian!!
As a culminating event, we were able to bring the 16 participants with the best attendance to the US Women's Soccer National Team's game vs. Portugal on August 29th! It was many of the girls first time at a professional sporting event and further inspired their newfound love for soccer and sport!
Thank you again for your support of Philly Girls in Motion. We are extremely excited to get our after school programs up and running and cannot wait to report back with you at the end of the year!
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