Women's Sports Foundation

Summer VISTA Spotlight: Catherine & Jayla

Summer VISTA Spotlight: Catherine & Jayla

Summer VISTA Cohort Leader Olivia Smith talks to Summer VISTAs Catherine Tamarelli and Jayla Bynum, who both have a long history with sports, about the impact of Title IX.

Summer VISTA Amanda Kaufman: Experience Helps Prepare Her For Graduate School

Summer VISTA Amanda Kaufman: Experience Helps Prepare Her For Graduate School

Many of our AmeriCorps Summer VISTAs have been playing sports their entire lives. They’ve decided to dedicate their summer to service and give back to the sports community that helped shape them as athletes. Learn about Amanda Kaufman and how her VISTA terms have helped prepare her for graduate school.

[WATCH] 2022 Virtual Celebration for National Girls & Women in Sports Day

[WATCH] 2022 Virtual Celebration for National Girls & Women in Sports Day

On Wednesday, February 2nd, Up2Us Sports celebrated the 36th Annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day. Up2Us Sports Ambassadors and She Changes The Game Advisory Council members had an inspiring conversation on how to get more women coaching and more girls playing sports.

[WATCH] Virtual Celebration for National Girls & Women in Sports Day

[WATCH] Virtual Celebration for National Girls & Women in Sports Day

On Thursday, February 18th, Up2Us Sports celebrated the 35th Annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day with a virtual conversation on sports' important role in keeping girls physically and mentally healthy.

Up2Us Sports Celebrates 33rd Annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day

Up2Us Sports Celebrates 33rd Annual National Girls and Women in Sports Day

On February 6, 2019 we celebrate the 33rd Annual National Girls & Women in Sports Day (NGWSD). This nationwide celebration acknowledges the accomplishments of all female athletes and honors the progress, as well as the continued struggle, women have made for equality in sports.  

She Can Coach: A Campaign in Support of Women Coaches

She Can Coach: A Campaign in Support of Women Coaches

Up2Us Sports is launching She Can Coach - a fundraising and awareness campaign focused on the importance of growing opportunities for women to coach and ensuring young girls in vulnerable communities have great female role models in their lives.

Research from the Women’s Sports Foundation and the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sports proves that girls drop out of sports at a higher rate than boys and that girls’ participation is strongly correlated with female role models.