Fifth Annual Girls in Sport Symposium

Steps to a Healthy Future: Celebrating Girls in Sport

  Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

The fifth annual AIA Academy’s Steps to a Healthy Future: Celebrating Girls in Sport Symposium will be held at Westview High School in Avondale. In the past four years, approximately 2000 student-athletes and their coaches from across Arizona have attended the event.

The Girls in Sport Symposium is an annual one-day celebration of female interscholastic sport and physical activity participation featuring world-class speakers on issues facing female student-athletes. Each year the symposium includes presentations from world-class athletes, sports scientists, and leaders from the community on a wide variety of topics related to the female sport experience.  This unique event is dedicated to providing female high school student athletes with information about the issues that matter to THEM and to encourage them to lead a healthy, active, and addiction-free lifestyle.  

 Presentation topics can include the following: 

• Nutrition and hydration
• Prevention of sport-related injuries
• Body image and self-esteem
• Maintaining a healthy lifesty
  
  

For information on how to support this event through sponsorship or donations, contact the AIA Academy at:
Phone: (602) 385-3820 
Fax: (602) 385-3779
Email: mbyers@aiaacademy.org