Photos: Girls Have their Day
The first annual Girls Day in Sports held at Guilderland High School, offered girls in first through sixth grades learned how to play eight different sports, taught by coaches and high school players.
The Enterprise — Michael Koff
Learning the ropes: Adelyn Weinlein, a Guilderland school district first-grader, learns how to dribble a soccer ball on Sunday afternoon at Guilderland High School during the first-ever Girls In Sports Day as Lynnwood Elementary physical-education teacher Mike Schafer looks on.
The Enterprise — Michael Koff
Just like this: Guilderland varsity player Gabby Gallacchi, right, shows fifth-grader Cheyenne Bowan how to serve a volleyball during the second rotation of eight where girls in first through sixth grades learned how to play eight different sports, taught by coaches and high school players.
The Enterprise — Michael Koff
On the bounce: Three fourth-graders learn to dribble a basketball — one of the three fundamentals of the game — after a varsity player shows how it’s done. The inaugural Girls in Sports Day was organized by two elementary-school physical-education teachers: Jennifer Sykes from Lynnwood and Tamara Bryngelson-Eppard from Guilderland, about 140 girls participated.