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The Girls Advisory Board (GAB), our girls' leadership program, provides girls ages 8-18 the opportunity to apply all the skills they have learned through sports & fitness and nutrition & health education through Girls in the Game. They get active in the community by: interviewing professional women from the community & touring their work place facilities, coordinating & leading workshops for their peers, and supporting women's sporting events (UIC, Chicago Sky, DePaul, Northwestern,etc.), mentoring, and more!
May 2008
On May 17th, 2008, Girls in the Game is hosting a Girls' Summit, where our Varsity Squad girls will lead sports & fitness activities and health workshops for their peers and girls from around the city:
- Lacrosse
- Softball
- Reading food labels
- Healthy friends and family relationships
- Making healthy snacks
- Teambuilding games
- A healthy lunch will be provided
Our Varsity Squad is comprised of high school girls from across the city who are trained through Girls in the Game on how to lead several sports & fitness activities, and nutrition & health education topics in order to lead them for their peers! The Varsity Squad girls earn college scholarship money for every workshop they lead. This year, the girls have earned a total of $4,000 towards their future education! Scholarship money is awarded through the Osa Foundation.
GAB Leader, Dawnn Cleveland, has been awarded a $25,000 scholarship from Playtex! Read more about Dawnn and the award here!
GAB girls meet the Northwestern Women's Basketball team! Women Leaders Interviews
In teams of 4-5, members of the Girls' Advisory Board (GAB) identify prominent women in Chicago who have received recognition for being an outstanding leader in Chicago. The GAB team then meets with the women, for job-shadowing or tour and then leads an interview with each. The interview covers career exploration, leadership skill development and invites the women leaders to attend the annual Leaders Banquet held in the spring.
Women Leaders to date have included:
Carrie Teffner of Sara Lee Dr. Kathy Weber of Rush Hospital
Georgia Fischer of Chicago Sky Basketball Team
Irene Juanitza of Blocks Together
Gail Fischer of Comcast
Olivia Chase of Tasteful Life
Barbara Holt of Chicago Urban League
Amy Nelson and staff of AthletiCo
Claire Williams of Enironmental Design International
Chef Mary Ellen Diaz of First Slice
Shauna Carlisle of Accelerate Rehab Clinic
GIG Staff members: Shonettia Smith, Amy Skeen, Carrie Lydon, and Jenika Faes
Shannon Bonner of Hardcore Fitness
Recent successes:
- On May
19th: The Girls' Advisory Board (GAB) presented the 2nd Annual Girls'
Summit: Intuition. Twenty girls from the Advisory Board put countless hours into planning a special event for their peers. The girls themselves lead a day of healthy workshops for over
100 girls from around Chicago, including: basketball, volleyball,
kickboxing, tobacco awareness, and anger management.
| GAB members planning Girls' Summit
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- On July 18th: Ann Liston, Partner at Adelstein and Liston, invited
our GAB members to lunch to discuss leadership and how being a leader
has helped her achieve the success she's exprienced.
GAB members & Ann Liston learn more about each other over a healthy lunch
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