Hope Solo recently tweeted about the importance of helping keep girls ‘in the game’ as they get older:
By 14, girls drop out of sports at two times the rate boys do. I dreamed of being a professional soccer player at a time when there was no professional women’s soccer. Years later my perseverance paid off and soccer became my career. Visit KeepHerInTheGame.org to donate and learn more.
By 14, girls drop out of sports 2x the rate boys do. Join @Gatorade & @WomensSportsFdn to #KeepHerInTheGame http://t.co/eAiseWi1
— Hope Solo (@hopesolo) June 15, 2012
I’ve never understood how in a country where the women’s national soccer team far outshines the men’s, we consistently see a ratio of 60/40 boys to girls in youth soccer participation. Sports don’t have to be all encompassing, but they can be an important part of every child’s life in terms of their overall growth. Nice to see our national athletes getting involved to keep girls in the game.
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June 15th, 2012 at 2:39 pm
The new tweet include feature of WordPress 3.4 is sweet!
June 16th, 2012 at 9:29 am
I’m glad to see this post, my daughter’s previous 98 team just folded due to “lack of interest” but she was able to move to another club team (in the same club). She has a degenerative knee-joint problem, yet she’d rather continue playing and play the price later than give up her dream. I wish all female players had her dream, perhaps her previous team would not have folded…