Want a young girl you know to learn more about sports from collegiate coaches and athletes? Well you can send her to Marshall University in West Virginia for their annual sports clinic. It all seems good--the girls learn a variety of skills and there are athletes from all the women's teams present to teach and mentor.
Too bad it's called a Sweetheart Clinic. Let's just reinforce the idea that girls playing sports is so non-normative that we have to compensate for this behavior by calling it something really girly.
Oh--and the participants get a pink sweetheart T-shirt to take home with them at the end of the day!
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Ummm...sweetheart?
"Sweatheart" would have been cuter -- a play on words.
Oops--my subconscious must have wanted it to be sweatheart too.
Reminds me of one of my favorite Thomas Lux poems.
IT'S CALLED SWEETHEART BECAUSE IS NEAR VALENTINE'S DAY...DUH
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