NCAA ladies’s basketball and Girls Leaders in Sports activities are co-hosting the inaugural NCAA Girls’s Last 4 Girls’s Sports activities Management VIP Summit on Thursday and Friday in Cleveland.
The occasion is convening highly effective and influential ladies leaders in sports activities and enterprise to:
- Talk about easy methods to collectively leverage the momentum of girls’s sports activities to create even better development, consideration, publicity and worth for all ladies’s sports activities.
- Establish methods to extend the variety of ladies working and main in sports activities (males’s and ladies’s).
- Create connection throughout all sectors of sports activities.
The 2-day occasion will embody assume tank classes and a public question-and-answer discussion board for these in Cleveland for the Girls’s Last 4, in addition to a number of invitation-only receptions and connection occasions centered across the NCAA Division I Girls’s Basketball Championship.
Suppose tanks particularly for the summit attendees shall be facilitated by Patti Phillips, CEO of Girls Leaders in Sports activities. On Friday from 11-11:45 a.m. Jap time, two panel classes at Past the Baseline inside Tourney City shall be open to the general public, together with alternatives for attendees and native and nationwide media retailers to interview contributors.
Girls’s sport executives representing all ranges of sports activities within the nation — collegiate, novice {and professional} — had been invited to take part and share their concepts on points and subjects. The VIP Summit will present a chance for networking and a platform to champion the ladies’s sports activities ecosystem nationally.
VIP Summit attendees embody:
- Daybreak Aponte, chief soccer administrative officer, NFL.
- Cheri Blauwet, affiliate professor, Harvard Medical College; board of administrators, U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee.
- Sandy Hatfield Clubb, president, The Pictor Group; managing director for strategic initiatives, Knight Fee.
- Jill Ellis, president, San Diego Wave Fútbol Membership.
- Cathy Engelbert, commissioner, WNBA.
- Sara Gaiero, vice chairman of manufacturing, ESPN.
- Jessica Gelman, CEO, Kraft Analytics Group; co-founder and co-chair, MIT Sloan Sports activities Analytics Convention; minority proprietor of the Utah Royals and Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League board alternate governor.
- Lynn Holzman, vice chairman of girls’s basketball, NCAA.
- Michele Kang, proprietor of a number of soccer golf equipment: the Washington Spirit (NWSL), Olympique Lyonnais Féminin and London Metropolis Lionesses; founder and CEO of Cognosante medical know-how firm.
- Danette Leighton, CEO, Girls’s Sports activities Basis.
- Rebecca Lobo, ladies’s basketball analyst, ESPN.
- Muffet McGraw, ESPN studio analyst; board of trustees, Girls’s Sports activities Basis.
- Kara Nortman, co-founder, Angel Metropolis Soccer Membership; co-founder and managing associate, Monarch Collective LLC.
- Patti Phillips, CEO, Girls Leaders in Sports activities.
- Holly Rowe, sports activities commentator, ESPN.
- Summer time Sanders, TV host and reporter; 1992 Olympian.
- Carol Stiff, president, Girls Sports activities Community.
The NCAA ladies’s basketball workers and Girls Leaders plan to proceed this summit at future Girls’s Last 4 places, together with in Tampa, Florida, subsequent yr on April 4 and 6.
