Women's Intersport Network for Kansas City

1308 Pennsylvania Avenue
Kansas City, MO 64105
phone: 816-474-4652 ext.227
website: www.sportkc.org

Girls sport day camp where girls ages 6-12 are introduced to 15 sports taught by local high school and collegiate coaches and teams, as well as national athletes.

High school girls serve as team captains and role models. Campers receives a t-shirt., and each day includes a life skills component, snack, lunch and treat.

Instructors and special guests include Bonnie Henrickson, KU Women’s Basketball Coach; Cindy Parlow, US National Women’s Soccer Team; and Radio Disney.

In 2006 we partnered with the National Sports Center for the Disabled had 20 girls attend the camp for a day. Camp WIN is working more closely with them this year to incorporate more of their girls into the camp.

The camp is approved and supported by the Girl Scouts Mid-Continent Council and the Women’s Sports Foundation.   Our main outcome is to introduce girls to sports they have never tried, so that they can find something they like and stay active.

Girls become more active, and are more willing to try new things, especially sports and fitness activities after a week at our camp. We measure this change through post-camp evaluations. This has tremendous long-term effects, because studies have shown that girls that participate in sports are less likely to get pregnant and use drugs, and are more likely to graduate from high school and have higher levels of self-esteem.

Camp surveys indicate that 94% of girls said they learned at least one new sport at Camp WIN, and 91% said that they wanted to continue playing the new sport they tried outside of Camp WIN.