Day 3: Show Us Your Team!
Admit it – you couldn’t have gotten where you are today without a little help along the way. Be it family or friends, teammates, teachers or pets we’ve all had someone who’s backed us up and kept us going when all we wanted to do was get cozy with Ben & Jerry. You can’t thank them enough, so here’s your chance to show them off!
The Payoff: Love ‘em or hate ‘em (sometimes both), your team has picked you up, pushed you forward, and made you a better you. And we want to hear about ‘em! Share your story and/or photo below and you could win a Limited Edition Power of 9 Tee and Title Nine Water Bottle. Remember, a team is a team, no matter what form it may take, so brag about Fido, your knitting group, or your roller derby girls. They’ve earned it! Don’t wait, get entered>
*Prize awarded based on availability. A substitute prize of equal or greater value may be awarded.
40 years ago Congress signed landmark legislation, Title IX, attacking the gender divide in sports. Today that divide has been virtually erased. In 1972, only 30,000 girls participated in high school sports. Today it’s over 3,000,000!! Because many of us here at Title Nine, including our founder, were there in the early years, we think there’s a lot to celebrate this year.
Here is My Team for The Head of the Charles last year… a small subset of my larger crew, Skidmore Community Rowing, in Saratoga Springs, NY. Wonderful women and men that row on Fish Creek… I love my Team!
My Roller Derby Team, the Naptown Tornado Sirens after placing third in our 2011 Regional Tournamnet and earning our first trip to Championship competition. We are on track for a repeat performance again, aiming for higher placement and repeat trip to Championships. These ladies are all amazing putting in hours of time and dedication to make our team a threat in highly competitive sport.
Team Trouble – San Francisco Bay Area Curling Club
I discovered Title 9 my freshman year of college when I started playing rugby for Lee University and decided “the girls” needed just a little more support and protection. Phew, have they been a life saver! …I have been a part of this team for the past four years and have never played sports with a more diverse, hard working, loving group of girls. This past year was our third time making it to the USA National Rugby Tournament. Even in the off season our team stays in touch, continuing to push and challenge one another by posting daily training tactics. Through thick and thin, scrapes and bruises they truly define sisterhood!
This is my team 🙂 The Margarita Mamas!
The three of us teamed up to do the Slacker Half Marathon as a relay team last year. Our shirts are really awesome….I wonder if we spent more time designing and making them than training for the race. The front has three margarita glasses in skirts jogging along, and says “slackers who love designated drivers”
Our team doesn’t just run together, we also hike, bike and ski together. But most importantly, we support each other with a listening ear and a shoulder to cry on, any time of the day or night. Now that’s a team!
My team is a group of moms who get together almost every day to run…. while pushing our kids in strollers! We workout together to hit our individual goals, laugh together and share support 24/7. As if that wasn’t enough, we meet every Tuesday night for a local running club and run a 5k through down town Colorado Springs. Some of us have goals to finish losing the baby fat, others goals are just to stay active. However, all of us agree that we want to show our kids (8 girls and one boy) that being an athlete and staying active is part of a healthy life.
Way to go ladies! I ran with both of my kids when they were younger. Don’t be afraid to keep taking them on your runs even when other may think they are too big to be in a stroller. They will enjoy getting out and running sprints with you and then be very glad they can get back in to take a rest. People gave me a hard time as they got bigger, but they just did not understand that it was good exercise for both of us and quality together time!
Congratulations, Nicole! You’re team rocks our socks – getting out there running with the other moms and showing your kids what it’s about to be an athlete is truly inspiring and we thank you! Enjoy your new Power of 9 Tee and Title Nine Water Bottle 🙂 You go girl!
The Indy Camogie team resting in the shade between two of our three (or was it four?) games. It was July in St. Louis — nearing 100 degrees and humid.
Whoops, that’s a caption for a photo that didn’t post. Let’s see if I can get the photograph on here with this comment. If it doesn’t work, I will explain here that camogie is the women’s version of the Gaelic sport of hurling. Locally we have an active club — coed spring/summer, fall, and winter leagues, and a couple of men’s teams and a women’s team for travel games. I came rather late to playing sports — age 39, to be exact. I joined the club last year and it’s my first time on any sort of sports team and I love it.
My team is the people I play hockey with. They’re the ones who cheer me on, the ones who high-five me when I do something right, the ones who patiently instruct me when I goof. They make me a better player, and a better teammate.
I was a product of Title IX. In the late 70’s I played little league baseball and was the only girl on the boys JV basketball team in middle school. I had a stellar high school career and the went on to college to play, only to dropout and get married. Ten years later, I still had eligibility so I went back to the same college I left. I was immediately welcomed by this younger group, being nearly 10 years older than them. We shared the commonality of basketball and a genuine love of sports. And this is why I want to say “thank you” to my teammates, who gave me so many great memories that I will cherish forever along with the ones we continue to make.
I have a great group of Disney loving women and men who all support each other online. We are currently tracking our collective training miles on my facebook page “for the love of Disney running”. It is a friendly competition between the runDisney races that we will be running in the coming year. It feels great to log your miles and to have other peoples support. We live all over the country, but we can be there for each other and support eachothers acheivements. I am a title nine baby who loves to get outside and have a good time (usually racing in crazy costumes). I do most of my running solo, but I always have my e-team with me!