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Florida Atlantic University Athletics
FAU Celebrates National Girl's & Women Sports Day
FAU Celebrates National Girl's & Women Sports Day
Jan. 23, 2003
BOCA RATON -
Florida Atlantic University's Athletic Department will honor its female student-athletes at the Friday, February 7 men's basketball game and will host a free clinic, Saturday, February 8 as part of the National Girl's and Women in Sports Day.
The National Girl's and Women in Sports Day has evolved into a day devoted to the acknowledgement of past performances and a day to recognize current sport achievements, as well as the positive influence of sport participation.
Much like the academic side of the University, FAU athletics is a gathering place for many of the World's best in their respective field of study. Those professors, or in the case of athletics, the coaches become mentors to young women as they seek to matriculate through college. They encourage success, lend experience and console adversity.
A prime example of this cycle lies within the FAU softball program. The Lady Owls softball team is coached by Joan Joyce. Joyce reached the pinnacle in softball and has accomplished nearly everything that an athlete would dare to accomplish. She has played four sports professionally, struck out several of the greatest baseball players, including Ted Williams, and is one of just two American women to be inducted to the International Softball Hall of Fame.
Joyce has coached the Lady Owls to six-consecutive conference championships and four-consecutive NCAA tournament appearances. One of many student athletes affected by Joyce's knowledge is Nikki Myers. Myers, a four-time Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament MVP and a top-10 finalist for the National Player of the year, was a member of every FAU team to play in a regional tournament and is now part of the staff lending experience to the younger women who are striving for a seventh title.
Softball sponsors free clinics throughout the season along with the remaining FAU teams, both men and women.
In celebration of the National Girls and Women's Sports Day, FAU has joined efforts with the Boys and Girls Clubs of Broward County to host an all day Free Sports Clinic. For more information call Jaime Taylor at 561.297.0211.