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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Feb. 5, 2007) – Members of the U.S. Women’s National Volleyball Training Team will sign autographs from 1-2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 10, at Colorado College’s El Pomar Great Hall in Colorado Springs.
Flo Hyman
The autograph session with Courtney Thompson (Kent, Wash.), Kristen Fenton (Marysville, Mich.) and Allison Anderson (Moraga, Calif.) takes place during Colorado College’s National Girls and Women in Sports Day Expo on campus. Immediately after the Expo, the CC Tiger women’s basketball team faces Johnson & Wales University in the J. Juan Reid Gymnasium. The Expo and basketball game are free and open to the public.
CC will also be collecting items including soap, shampoo and toothpaste for TESSA, a Colorado Springs organization that aims to significantly reduce domestic violence through education, intervention and treatment services. According to a Colorado College flyer, other U.S. Olympians will be present at the Expo.
NGWSD began in 1987 as a day to remember U.S. Olympic volleyball player Flo Hyman for her athletic achievements and her work to assure equality for women's sports. Hyman died of Marfan's Syndrome in 1986 while competing in a volleyball tournament in Japan. She had just been substituted out of a match when she had succumbed to the undiagnosed illness. Marfan Syndrome affects more than 1 in 10,000 people.
Since Hyman’s passing, NGWSD has evolved into a day to acknowledge the past and recognize current sports achievements, the positive influence of sports participation, and the continuing struggle for equality and access for women in sports.
Hyman’s achievements were numerous. She helped the U.S. Olympic Team to a silver medal at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, four years after her and her teammates did not have the opportunity to compete in the U.S.-boycotted 1980 Olympic Games. Among her achievements was being selected Best Hitter at the 1981 World Cup.
Diane French, the U.S. women’s national team technical coordinator, holds the National Girls and Women in Sports Day dear to her heart as she was a teammate of Hyman from 1975 to 1980.
“I joined the national team in 1975 and Flo was my assigned roommate,” French said. “I was at little nervous at first because she was so well-known and I was just a rookie from the East Coast. But she was so down-to-earth and friendly that she made me feel right at home.”
French, who was on the 1980 U.S. Olympic squad with Hyman that did not compete because of the boycott, commented that Hyman’s success helped lift women’s volleyball in status across the country.
“Flo was a real dominant player, our go-to player on the outside” French said. “She carried a lot of responsibility for our team not just on the court, but off the court as well. Much of her success came during the infancy of the Title IX era in which young girls were exposed to volleyball on several domestic tours. It is great that Flo continues to be honored through the National Girls and Women in Sports Day. She has meant a lot to the sport of women’s volleyball here in the United States.” |
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