This is the information from the
NGWSD website:
"February 3, 2021, marks the 35th Annual National Girls & Women in
Sports Day (NGWSD). Every year, this celebration inspires girls and
women to play and be active, to realize their full power. This year,
with the COVID-19 pandemic, we recognize the importance of staying
mentally and physically healthy during challenging times. Whether
virtual or other, we invite you to safely celebrate NGWSD in your
community and to join the Women’s Sports Foundation as we Lead Her
Forward in 2021."
"Nearly 50 years ago, Title IX opened the doors for sports participation.
Today, women and girls still lag behind in access, leadership and
coaching opportunities, pay and media coverage. As we enter a new
decade, there is a groundswell of support for gender equity. With
collective action, we can harness this momentum into lasting impact.
Here at Middlebury, our one female Sports Information representative put together some fun graphics for us to post on social media, but I wanted to showcase them here also. I had reached out and talked with colleagues of my era and we talked about how when most of us started sports in elementary school at that time it was mostly on "boys" teams where we were usually the only girl, or one of only two girls on the team. Even in middle school, I ran cross country on a co-ed team where the vast majority of the athletes were guys. Anyway, I couldn't be more happy that NGWSD is celebrated so widely now, and I'm proud to have been part of athletic teams for the past 40 years. Over that time, the changes have been significant, which is exciting, even though the statistics for opportunities for women still lag behind that for men, we have made significant progress. At Middlebury, I feel very fortunate to say that the women's teams have equal access to facilities and support staff with the men's teams. Although that should go without saying, it was definitely not true in my High School. My hope is that future women will never know first hand a time when that wasn't true. The best is yet to come...
First up are our seniors:
Next up we have all 5 of our juniors:
Next we have some of our sophomores:
And, last but not least are two of our freshmen:
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