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TiTle iX and Beyond:How Do we Get tHe Rest of

ouR GiRls into tHe Game?

May 31st, 2012 Washington, DC


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Te Aspen Institute Sports and Society Program acknowledges the generous supporto the American Heart Association in making this symposium possible.

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TiTle iX and Beyond:How Do we Get tHe Rest of

ouR GiRls into tHe Game?

On June 23, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon signed into law the statute knownas itle IX, declaring, No person in the United States shall, on the basis o sex,be excluded rom participation in, be denied the bene ts o , or be subjected to

discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving Federal nancial as-sistance. Tat year, there were about 294,000 roster spots on high school teams lled bygirls. By 2011, that number had grown to 3.1 million. On the eve o its 40th anniversary,itle IX merits recognition as the most e ective tool at growing athletic participationopportunities since the advent o organized youth sports itsel more than a century ago by simply opening up sports in America to the non-male hal o our population. Te bene ts to our society have been numerous. We know rom research that girls andwomen who play sports are less likely to become obese or develop heart disease. Tey

have higher levels o con dence, and lower levels o depression. Tey have lower rateso teen pregnancy and drug use. Tey get better grades and are more likely to graduate.Tey learn about teamwork, goal-setting and other skills that can help them in the work-place. As the Womens Sports Foundation notes on its website, It is no accident that 80percent o emale executives at Fortune 500 companies identi ed themselves as ormertomboys having played sports. Yet, most girls still miss out on the experience. Access to sports depends in large part onwhere a girl happens to live. Girls in the South and West have the ewest opportunities,as you can see in charts on the next page. And the participation rate or girls in ruralareas and towns is twice that o those in urban areas (25 percent). Here in WashingtonD.C., its been as low as six percent. Te barriers to participation or disadvantaged girls are many rom inequitable accessto parks to a lack o role models and a ordable club programs but so are the oppor-tunities or progress. odays symposium, eaturing basketball star Maya Moore andan stellar set o speakers, explores breakthrough ideas and strategies in an e ort to ndscalable solutions or these girls, including the eight million who live in poverty. It startsa dialogue about extending the promise o itle IX to all American girls.


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Girls sporTs acTiviTy shaped By Family resources

Te ollowing charts were created or the Aspen Institutes Sports & SocietyProgram by the Sporting Goods Manu acturers Association, which collectsannual participation data through an annual online survey o more than 38,000households. Te rst chart re ects the participation rate or girls under age 18,based on their household income, in each o the most popular sports.

Heres how o ten girls rom income groups played at least one o the sports:

Sources: SGMA, Tennis Industry Association, National Golf Foundation


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8:30 9:00 am: Meet-and-greet, continental break ast

9:00 9:05: Introduction byCheryl Campbell , Chair o the Mid-Atlantic RegionBoard o Directors, American Heart Association

9:05 9:30: NINE QUES IONS with citizen-athlete and basketball starMaya Moore ,in conversation with Sports & Societydirector and ESPN reporter om Farrey

9:30 10:00: Excerpt rom Anderson Monarchs, newdocumentary on urban girls soccerteam, ollowed by moderated discussionwith center mid elder Kahlaa Cannady and coach Jaf Barnes

10:00 11:00: NINE BIG IDEAS rom practitioners who have succeeded in workingwith girls in underserved communities, or leaders with promising concepts.Each speaker gets ve minutes to share their proposed solution. Audience

Q&A will be built into the hour at three points.

Speakers: Awista Ayub , Author, Kabul Girls Soccer Club Janet Carter , Executive Director, Coaching Corp Diana Cutaia , Director o Athletics and Sport-Based Initiatives,

Wheelock College Anne Mosle , Director, ASCEND/Family Economic Security

Program, the Aspen Institute Benita Fitzgerald Mosley , Chair o the Board o rustees,

Womens Sports Foundation Amy Nakamoto , Executive Director, America SCORES Robin Schepper , Senior Advisor, Nutrition and Physical Activity

Initiative, BiPartisan Policy Center Dionne Koller , Director, University o Baltimore Center or

Sport and the Law Laurie Whitsel , National Coalition or Promoting Physical Activity

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11:00 12:00 pm: NINE S RA EGIES that could broaden adoption o the most

power ul ideas, as suggested by a panel o national experts rom key realms,ollowed by audience Q&A

Speakers: Anita DeFrantz , Chair, Women and Sport Commission,

International Olympic Committee John DiPaolo , Chie o Sta , Ofce o Civil Rights, U.S. Department

o Education Shellie P ohl , Executive Director, the Presidents Council on Fitness,Sports and Nutrition John Walsh , Executive Editor, ESPN

12:00 1:30: Brie closing comments, ollowed by bu et lunch or speakers and audience

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Janet Carter joined Coaching Corps as Executive Director in 2008.For 15 years prior to joining Coaching Corps she served as VicePresident o the Family Violence Prevention Fund, helping to growthe organization rom a local nonpro t to a national leader in thee ort to end domestic violence. As Executive Director at CoachingCorps, Ms. Carter is leading the e ort to take the organization toscale nationally. Coaching Corps provides kids living in low-incomecommunities with volunteer coaches trained in youth development.Coaches are recruited rom colleges and universities and placed in

a ter-school programs serving low-income communities.

Cheryl Campbell is Senior Vice President o CGIs Health andCompliance Program oversees complex national I initiatives orFederal clients including: HHS, CMS, FDA and CDC, whoseimpact drives high-value healthcare solutions or the US population.Widely respected, she was named a Healthcare I Game Changer inIndustry to Watch, by ExecutiveBiz. Cheryl has been involved withthe American Heart Association, as an event partner and a membero the board o directors over the past several years and has becomethe rising Chair o the Mid-Atlantic Region Board o Directors.

Diana Cutaia is Director o Athletics and Sport-Based Initiatives atWheelock College in Boston. Since her arrival in the 2005-06 schoolyear, the Division III program has experienced tremendous success.Wheelock has seen a 200 percent increase in student-athlete partici-pation, and has grown the number o varsity programs rom ve to

11, including adding mens sports or the rst time in school history.Wildcat student-athletes have drawn 39 all-con erence and 103academic all-con erence accolades, while the programs have earned17 league sportsmanship awards. Late in 2010, she was one o veBoston-area women lauded or her community service e orts, earn-ing the Activating Con dence Award in the category o advocacy dueto her work in promoting sport at all levels and or all genders, bothlocally and on the national level.

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Anita DeFrantz , attorney and an Olympic medalist, has served aspresident o the LA 84 Foundation since 1987. Te LA84 Founda-tion is the legacy o the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games which hasas its mission serving youth through sport and enhancing the knowl-edge o sport society. Ms. DeFrantz was elected a member o theInternational Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1986. She is the chair o the Women and Sport Commission o the IOC in the United States.She has served on the Executive Board o the IOC and in 1997, shewas the rst woman ever elected a vice president o the IOC.

John K. DiPaolo is Chie o Sta o the Ofce or Civil Rights in theU.S. Department o Education. OCRs 600 team members promoteeducational equity and excellence through the en orcement o civilrights laws addressing race, color, national origin, gender, disabilityand age. Most recently, Mr. DiPaolo was a Senior Fellow ocusing oneducation litigation and policy at the Lawyers Committee or CivilRights Under Law. He has worked on school district directed policyre orm, run a oundation overseeing charter schools, and taught mathat a public high school in Boston. Mr. DiPaolo received his bachelorsdegree rom Wesleyan University, and his law degree rom Yale LawSchool.

Dionne Koller is an Associate Pro essor o Law at the University o Baltimore School o Law where she teaches Civil Procedure I and II,orts and Sports and the Law and directs the law schools Center orSport and the Law. Prior to entering law teaching, Pro essor Koller

was an attorney with Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P.in Washington, D.C. specializing in complex commercial litigation.Pro essor Koller has published scholarly articles in theConnecticutLaw Review, Brigham Young University Law Reviewand the Harvard Journal o Sports and Entertainment Law, among other law reviews,and is a requent commentator on issues related to sports and the law.


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Maya Moore is on her way to becoming the astest player in the his-tory o basketball to win every championship available: High School,NCAA, World Championship, WNBA, European, Spanish Leagueand in August, Olympic Gold. Already, she is in the record books asthe winningest player ever in the history o college basketball. Hail-ing rom Atlanta, GA, Moore has made a career o winning. She isGeneration Next, the thought ul athlete turned cultural icon, lovedby the media and as the rst emale basketball player signed to theprestigious Jordan Brand, she is anointed by Michael himsel . She is

the sports most ampli ed crossover star.

Anne Mosle is a Vice President o the Aspen Institute and ExecutiveDirector o Ascend, the Family Economic Security Program at theAspen Institute. Prior to Ascend, Mosle served as a Vice Presidentand Ofcer o the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. As a Kellogg VicePresident, Mosle was responsible or the Family Economic Securityand Civic and Philanthropic Engagement Port olios totaling $40M;the launch o the $100M Mission Driven Investing pilot program;and spearheading the New Mexico place-based programming. Priorto W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Mosle served as the president o Wash-ington Area Womens Foundation rom 2000-2007. Earlier in hercareer, Mosle was a member o the leadership team at the Center orPolicy Alternatives. Mosle currently serves on the board o the idesNetwork and Foundation and the Advisory Committee o Ox ordUniversity Said School o Business. She currently resides in Wash-ington with her husband, Jim, and children, Elliot and Jasper.

Benita Fitzgerald Mosley is Chie o Sport Per ormance or USArack & Field (USA F). She oversees USA F high per ormance,elite athlete support, eam USA; sport science and medicine; anti-doping; and coaching education/certi cation. She is chair o theWomens Sports Foundation Board o rustees, an organizationdedicated to advancing the lives o girls and women through sportsand physical activity. Fitzgerald Mosley joined USA F a ter serv-ing as President and CEO o Women in Cable elecommunications

rom 2001 to 2009 and as Director o Olympic raining Centersor the USOC rom 1995 to 2001. A world-class athlete, Fitzger-ald Mosley won a gold medal in the 100-meter hurdles at the 1984Olympic Games in Los Angeles, CA.

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Amy Nakamoto is the interim Executive Director o AmericaSCORES, a national organization that works with 14 sites nation-wide to serve over 7,500 youth in more than 140 public schools.America SCORES inspires urban youth to lead healthy lives, beengaged students, and have the con dence and character to make adi erence in the world. Amy is also the permanent DC SCORESExecutive Director, a role she has held since 2006. In that role, Amyhas been recognized by Te Century Council, the Positive Coach-ing Alliance (PCA), and the Meyer Foundation as a leader in youth

development and the nonpro t sector. Amy is also one o 12 peopleappointed to the District o Columbias Healthy Schools and YouthCommission, which advises Mayor Vincent Gray on health, wellness,and nutritional issues a ecting youth and schools.

Shellie P ohl was appointed by President Barack Obama in Febru-ary 2010 to serve as Executive Director o the Presidents Council onFitness, Sports & Nutrition. As Executive Director, Ms. P ohl directsthe Councils activities and operations as well as leads the Councilse orts to support First Lady Michelle ObamasLets Move! Initiativeaimed at solving the childhood obesity epidemic within a genera-tion. Prior to joining the Council, Ms. P ohl served as Senior VicePresident o Partnerships or HOPSports, Inc. where she createdstrategic partnerships with state, national and international organiza-tions seeking health and physical education resources or schools andcommunity organizations.

Robin Schepper is a passionate, committed pro essional with exten-sive managerial experience in Democratic campaigns, governmentand the non-pro t sector. She has proven leadership and commu-nications experience building businesses, high pro le initiatives andcommunity organizations. Robin is skilled in strategic planning andimplementation, public speaking, creating and working with coali-tions, and managing large teams. At present, Robin serves as senioradvisor to the Bipartisan Policy Centers Nutrition and Physical Ac-tivity Initiative working with ormer Cabinet Secretaries Glickman,

Shalala, Leavitt and Veneman. Previously, Robin served as ExecutiveDirector or First Lady ObamasLets Move! Initiative.


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John Walsh is Executive Editor and Executive Vice President o

ESPN. Since joining ESPN in 1988, John A. Walshs ngerprintsare on many o the networks largest initiatives and launches. Anexecutive vice president, Walsh has served as executive editor sinceDecember 1990 and oversaw the launch o ESPN Te Magazine andESPN Radio; been instrumental in developing the many news andin ormation elements within ESPN, including networks and newshows; and led the editorial direction o ESPN.com and its proper-ties. Currently he also serves as chairman o ESPNs editorial board.

Laurie Whitsel is currently the Director o Policy Research or theAmerican Heart Association, helping to translate science into policyat a national level in the areas o cardiovascular disease and strokeprevention and health promotion. Te Associations policy researchdepartment provides policy development and the oundation orAHAs advocacy work at the national and state level. She is also thepresident o the National Coalition or Promoting Physical Activ-ity, which represents a diverse blend o associations, health organi-zations, and private corporations promoting physical activity andtness initiatives, advocating or policies that encourage Americans o all ages to become more physically active.

om Farrey is an ESPN enterprise reporter and director o theAspen Institutes Sports & Society Program. His stories have ap-peared on ESPN televisions Outside the Lines, SportsCenter andE:60, ABCs World News onight and Good Morning America, andin print or the Seattle imes, Business Week and Washington Post.He is a contributing writer at ESPN Te Magazine and ESPN.com,where in 1996 he was one o the rst editors. wo o his stories havewon Emmy awards, and his written work has earned top nationalhonors rom organizations including the Womens Sports Founda-tion. His 2008 book,Game On: Te All-American Race to MakeChampions o Our Children, a deep exploration o the culture o mod-ern youth sports, is a required text in courses at many universities.He launched the Sports & Society Program in May 2011.

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addresses a range o topics and is currently ocused on the role o sports in thedevelopment o healthy children and communities.

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