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FOUR WESLEYAN WOMEN
STUDENT-ATHLETES SPEAK TO ESYHF MEMBERS IN MARCH, 2009
During the weekend of March 7, 2009, four Wesleyan
athletes traveled to Philadelphia to spend the first weekend of their spring
break speaking to underprivileged girls about the importance of staying in
school and pursuing higher education. The event was organized through the Ed
Snider Youth Hockey Foundation (ESYHF), a non-profit organization founded by Ed
Snider, owner of the Philadelphia Flyers, to use the sport of hockey to educate
young people on how to succeed in the game of life. ESYHF provides after-school
hockey, life skills, and educational programming, at no cost, to the most
disadvantaged communities in the Greater Philadelphia Region. The Cardinals were
invited to join two other athletes in a question and answer session with the
Foundation's girls' team. The athletes; Talia Bernstein '11 (softball), Emily
Avener '09 (ice hockey co-captain), Meredith Lowe '09 (basketball co-captain), and Molly
O'Connell '09 (field hockey and softball co-captain), joined Nora Miller
(Stanford '10 and daughter of Wesleyan diving coach and associate director of
facilities management Jeff Miller) and Brie Zdunkiewicz (Neumann College '05)
for an afternoon of pizza, ice hockey, and conversation with about 30 players
and parents. In addition to fielding questions from players and parents, the
athletes spent time talking with the young women about how staying in school and
concentrating on academics has helped them pursue their dreams to play sports at
the collegiate level. The women selected were invited to speak not only as
successful athletes and leaders in their respective sports, but also because of
their hard work and determination in the academic and extracurricular spheres.
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