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Softball
Festival Comes to Springfield Springfield is one of only 15 cities that will have the opportunity to host the best softball players from around the world, including members of the 2004 USA Olympic Gold Medal Team. The three-day event will be televised by a major network to be announced later. Meador Park, Killian Sports Complex, and Cooper Sports Complex are the festival venues. During the festival weekend, 100 amateur girls youth teams will have an opportunity to participate in their championship play at the same time the professionals are playing in their league competition. There will be a youth clinic the evening of June 9. The Springfield Community received an excellent rating on the 2004 USA Olympic Team visit "Aiming for Athens Tour" which lead Springfield to the opportunity to bid on the New Ladies' Professional Softball Festival. WIN
members' assistance will be needed with this event. Watch for
announcements on how you can be involved.
[Newsletter
hard copy] designed and edited by Wildan Pond Associates The Breast Cancer Foundation of the Ozarks will again benefit from the Women's Senior Gold Tour when it returns to Springfield's Millwood course. The date is July 25. As in previous years, the tournament will feature outstanding players and local golfers will have the opportunity to join these women on the links. An auction at the Clarion Hotel on July 24, will add excitement and build funding for the Breast Cancer Foundation of the Ozarks. We will need donations from WIN members and their contacts to make this fundraiser a success. Begin now to collect items and let's pass last year's totals. Volunteers are key to the tournament's success. Plus, it's fun and easy to get involved. Ask how you can help WIN host this event to benfit women in the Ozarks. 2004 WGST totals are in! $25,303.60. Thanks to everyone who participated. Everybody Gather 'Round WIN is forming a committee to recommend outstanding women athletes throughout the state for induction into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame. If you have recommendations or would like to seve on this committee, please let Reba know. Providing addresses or resumes will help the committee. The new WIN shirts ($20) and the pin ($4) are available. They can be ordered on the coupon in this newsletter. If you have paid your 2005 WIN dues, thank you! If not, please do so today. Focus on Sports At Southwest Missouri State's National Girls and Women in Sports Day, January 23, WIN honored 12 outstanding female athletes, representing 6 decades, with a display in the west gym before the Lady Bears game. At halftime, the women were introduced at center court.
Honored
Athletes In Brief Kay Hunter, coach of SMS' AIAW national championship softball team and professor emeritus, received the university's Award of Appreciation during Homecoming. Girls on the first-and-second-place teams in the Ozarks and Central Ozarks Conferences received certificates of recognition from WIN. WIN members Dr. Mary Jo Wynn, Dr. Rhonda Ridinger, and Reba Sims will present at SMS' "History of Women in Sport" March 9, 2005. Time and place are noon to 1 p.m., Plaster Student Union, Parliamentary Room. She Can Coach, a new book by SMS grad Cecile Reynaud, is a "how-we-do-it" look at building a program and being a successful coach. Among those featured are Nell Fortner, Pat Summit, Margie Wright, and Mary Jo Peppler. The book is available at Barnes and Noble. Springfield
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