Celebrate National Girls & Women in Sports Day Feb. 7
Join the NJCAA to celebrate our past and present female student-athletes on #NGWSD
National Girls & Women in Sports Day Event Action Kit
February 7 marks the 32nd Annual National Girls & Women in Sports Day (Tweet #NGWSD). To honor and promote the extraordinary females throughout the NJCAA, the association is planning a social media push throughout the day using the hashtag Tweet #NJCAA4NGWSD.
"The NJCAA has a rich tradition of females in sport," stated Ricky Webster, NJCAA Director of Marketing & Communications. "The association's first-ever Executive Director, George E. Killian, who passed away in December, was at the forefront for female collegiate athletics. We would like to honor his legacy by promoting past and present females that have helped shape the NJCAA over the years."
Member schools, student-athletes, and fans are encouraged to take to social media throughout the day, using the Tweet #NJCAA4NGWSD and Tweet #NGWSD hashtag to highlight the success of female student-athletes throughout the NJCAA, both past and present.
"It is our goal to bring to light the exceptional female student-athletes that help make the NJCAA thrive each and every day," Webster added. "We look forward to our members reaching a national level of exposure to showcase what female athletics means to the NJCAA."
For more information on National Girls & Women in Sports Day and how you can get involved, visit: National Girls & Women in Sports Day
For more information how you can get involved, contact Ricky Webster: rwebster@njcaa.org.
Historical female moments throughout the NJCAA
June 23, 1972: President Richard Nixon implements Title IX, a law that George E. Killian saw as an opportunity for the NJCAA to grow and added the Presidents' Special Study Committee to analyze the prospect of adding a separate division for women in the NJCAA.
December 1974: CCBC Catonsville hosts the first NJCAA Women's Volleyball Invitational Championship in Baltimore, MD. The championship is the first held for women by a coed national collegiate athletics organization.
March 1975: The NJCAA establishes the first women's division for collegiate athletics in the United States.
November 1975: The NJCAA Women's Volleyball Championship becomes the first championship held for women by a national coed collegiate organization.
March 1990: Elected as the 13th President of the NJCAA, Lea Plarski from St. Louis-Florissant Valley (Mo.) becomes the first female to hold the office.
June 1990: Former Roane State (TN) women's basketball player Bernadette Mattox becomes the first female assistant coach for an NCAA Division I men's basketball team under Kentucky head coach Rick Pitino.
April 1993: Former NJCAA All-American and 1991 NJCAA Player of the Year Sheryl Swoopes from South Plains (TX) is named Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament after leading Texas Tech to its first national championship.
April 1995: The NJCAA adds Division II for women's basketball, cross country, and soccer.
July 2009: Interim Executive Director Mary Ellen Leicht is appointed as the third Executive Director of the NJCAA. Leicht becomes the first female chief executive of any intercollegiate athletics organization in the United States.
February 7, 2018: NJCAA participates in 32nd Annual National Girls & Women in Sports Day
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