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Monday, November 4, 2013

Girls in Sports News: Sept/Oct Roundup

We have been using our twitter account @sportygirlbooks to publicize current news about girls in sports. Here are some of our favorite articles that you might have missed:

September 17

 Sun Sentinel

Local skateboarder 'a girl in a guy's territory'

- Some of the other skateboarders talk about Hailey Seitz behind her back. "They say she sucks," said 10-year-old Santiago Samanamud after school one afternoon at the local skate park. They...
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September 18
US Consulate promotes football for local girls

October 10
 HuffPost Sports

We're Losing Ground on the Title IX Front

The battle for equal opportunity in sports is far from won. In fact, the situation is getting worse, not better. Consider this sobering statistic: Since 2004, the gap in the number of sports partic...
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October 22
Exercise is brain food for teens

22 Oct
These women rock. Boston Blades: the 1st Boston Professional Women's Hockey Team:
October 24
Girls Play Sports program has high school girls paying it forward


October 26

 The Guardian
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If we want more women in sport we must raise their profile | Natasha...

Natasha Henry: Girls are shying away from physical activity, partly because the media ignore our female athletes

October 27

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