Reflections of Havergal: 1994-2019

Appendices

A Few Facts About Sports, Education and Girls Chronicle , 2003

FACT: Healthy, happy children become healthy, happy adult. • Active children may increase their chances of becoming healthy adults (American Dietetic Association). • If we want our young girls to be healthy, we have to get our young girls active (Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity). FACT: Playing sports is a terrific way to learn the benefits of teamwork. • A team with a star player is a good team, but a team without one is a great team (Unknown). FACT: Lifelong friendships are formed on the playing field. • When all is said and done, it’s not the shots that won the championship that you remember, but the friendships you made along the way (Unknown but just ask any Old Girl). FACT: Playing sports helps girls build confidence. • Participating in sports has also been found to increase young women’s self-esteem (Empowering Women in Sports, No.4 Feminist Majority Foundation).

FACT: It’s not in the winning it’s in the trying. • Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. (Vince Lombardi)

FACT: Recipe for a Champion-leadership, determination and perseverance. • Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside themselves: a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have last-minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill (Muhammed Ali).

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