Sweetheart Clinic?
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!