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06/08/2021
Smoothie au concombre La salade et le concombre, vous trouviez ça fade et sans intérêt. Mais ça, c'était avant ! Avant de découvrir cette recette de smoothie au concombre qui sublime la roquette et son arôme de noisette. Au-delà de son goût frais à en faire pâlir un bouquet de menthe poivrée, cette boisson mi...
28/07/2021
The Story of The Skipper Nancy “The Skipper” Ito began her softball career in 1947 while thousands of West Coast Japanese-Americans still were readjusting to life outside of internment and residual anti-Japanese hysteria. Continuing the legacy of Japanese-American women playing the sport, Ito first played in Denver and ...
28/07/2021
Jason McElwain Perhaps the No. 1 feel-good story of recent memory is that of Jason "J-Mac" McElwain. Born with autism, McElwain had a passion for basketball and became the manager of the Greece Athena High School basketball team. On the last game of his senior year, head coach Jim Johnson surprised McElwain with a...
SPORTS ARE THE LONELINESS ANTIDOTE
Psychologists and other experts at the Women’s Sports Foundation (WSF) performed a national survey of more than a thousand girls ages 7 to 13 and asked them (among other things) what they like best about playing sports. At the top of their list? “Making friends and feeling part of a team.” A different survey of more than 10,000 girls from fifth to 12th grade, produced by the nonprofit Ruling Our eXperiences (ROX) in partnership with the NCAA and called “The Girls’ Index,” found that, overall, female athletes use social media at lower rates than their peers and also experience less sadness and depression. In an era when social isolation and mental health issues including social media–fueled comparison anxiety are at an all-time high among young people, the peer bonding and sense of community provided by team sports are needed more than ever.
26/07/2021
7 Reasons to Get Your Daughter Involved in Sports, According to Science
By Suzanne Zuckerman | ???. 6, 2020
Team USA inspired a global audience when they won the 2019 Women’s World Cup. They also exposed a glaring injustice when it came to light that they were compensated at less than half the rate of their male counterparts (who, BTW, have never won a World Cup and haven’t even come close since 1930). Here’s a blood-boiling stat supplied by ESPN: FIFA (the Fédération Internationale de Football Association) awarded $30 million in prize money to those winning women. The previous year, the men’s tournament doled out $400 million in prize money.
Look, we can’t all be Megan Rapinoe. But we can do our part to dismantle gender disparity in the world of sports—starting by encouraging our own daughters to play.
Did you know that girls participate in sports at lower rates than boys at all ages? And that girls get involved in sports later than boys and drop out earlier—a sad trend that crests around adolescence? On the flip side, according to research by the Women’s Sports Foundation (an advocacy group founded by Billie Jean King in 1974), “Youth sports participation is linked to substantial physical, social-emotional and achievement-related benefits. For girls in particular, research consistently demonstrates sports participation is linked to their improved physical and mental health; academic achievement; and increased levels of body esteem, confidence and mastery, with some indication that girls reap greater benefits from sports participation than do boys.”
Star athletes aren’t just born. They are raised. Here, seven stat-supported reasons to cheer on your own.