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Women's Soccer Enjoys Volunteer Experience With Girls for Gender Equity, Inc.

05/02/08

Continuing a strong recent streak of community service within the New York University athletic department, the Violets’ women’s soccer team participated in the Sixth Annual Mother Daughter Health and Play Day at Girls for Gender Equity, Inc. (GGE) in Brooklyn on April 12.

About half of the team offered a skills display for the mothers and daughters, most of whom were ages 11 and 12. The Violets introduced soccer to many members of the group, interacting with their new friends while imparting their knowledge of the sport.

“It was very self rewarding,” sophomore midfielder Lucy Dolly Caires said. “It’s always good to give back to the community. Since we are all far away from home and don’t have our mothers with us, it was kind of like us being with our mothers as well.”

The 6th Annual Mother Daughter Health and Play Day was a community service project sponsored by GGE. The group is committed to the physical, psychological, social and economic development of girls and women. Through education organizing and physical fitness, Girls for Gender Equity encourages communities to remove barriers and create opportunities for girls and women to live self-determined lives.

After such an enjoyable experience, Caires said the team will look to volunteer for more worthy causes because, as she put it, “We’re always about trying to give back to the community.”

Added junior forward Sarah Pillemer: “It was a lot of fun. The mothers and daughters seemed to really enjoy themselves. It was rewarding.”