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The Fairfield University Department of Athletics, in conjunction with the Connecticut Girls Scout Council, hosted then 10th Annual Girl Scout Sports Day on Sunday, Jan. 30. Nearly 150 Girl Scouts from around Fairfield County participated in the day-long event on the University’s campus.
“This is a wonderful event that we are proud to host every year,” event organizer Alison Sexton, Senior Associate Director of Athletics said. “It is an opportunity for our female student-athletes to have a positive affect on the young women of our area, giving them a glimpse at the life of a collegiate student-athlete. The great part of the program is it introduces the girl scouts to sports that they may have never played before.”
The program begins with each Girl Scout participating in clinics with each of Fairfield’s 11 women’s varsity sports. Current Stags players provide instruction about their sport and have the girl scouts participate in drills and games related to the sport. After the clinics the Fairfield student-athletes took the girl scouts to lunch at the on-campus cafeteria. They then went over to Alumni Hall to watch the Stags women’s basketball game against Rider University.
The Girl Scout clinic was held in conjunction National Girls and Women in Sports Day, which is sponsored by the Women’s Sports Foundation.
