Empowering Girls for Life: How to Watch (or Re-Watch) This Year’s Sessions… Including Two DI National Championship Coaches!

Having been to sessions of the Empowering Girls for Life (EGFL) series previously, we at Extra Inning Softball are big fans of what is presented every year where great women role models—inside and outside of softball—share their insights, experiences and advice.

This year, the 5^th Annual Empowering Girls for Life event was held September 10^th and, once again, provided a dynamic array of speakers.

If you were not able to check out the FREE event live or, if you would like to watch it again, the recording of it can be accessed by clicking HERE.

Just fill out your name and email and you will be automatically taken to the speaker session playlist which included six role models for what they do (alphabetically listed, for their bios scroll down):

SPEAKERS:

• Alycia Baumgardner – Super-feather weight boxing champion, founder of Temple Raw Juices
• Alyssa Carson – astronaut trainee with a goal of being selected to go to Mars, mission researcher in suborbital space.
• Patty Gasso – head coach, Oklahoma University Softball, 2022 National Championship Winner.
• Carol Hutchins – recently retired head coach, University of Michigan Softball, the winningest coach in NCAA softball.
• Dawn Staley – head coach, University of South Carolina Women’s Basketball – 2022 National Championship Winner.
• Sydney Supple emcee for the event; Division 1 Softball player at Northwestern University in her senior year studying Broadcast Journalism.

FUN FACTS

How powerful was this year’s speaker line-up?

There were:

• two (2) national championship coaches,
• the super featherweight champion of the world,
• the winningest coach in college softball history,
• the youngest NASA Possum Academy graduate and future Mars space traveler,
• a current Big Ten pitcher.

HOW IT WENT…

According to event organizer Lexi Roach, who oversees the production of Empowering Girls for Life under the direction of Beverly Bandits organizational head Bill Conroy, this year’s fifth edition of the speaker series featured “nine countries represented in attendance at this year’s event.”

Additionally, the viewership was strong as:

“Over 70% of the people who registered, logged in on the day of the event.”

Said one event attendee:

“The presentations were excellent, it was very educational in women’s sports including Title IX and the empowering of women with great stories.”

Added Lexi:

“Because of our generous sponsors, we are able to put on this great event free of charge each year and we’ll have a very exciting announcement coming out about our 2023 event soon so stay tuned!”

If you have questions or would like to receive more info on EGFL, email: [email protected].

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Empowering Girls for Life 2022 Speakers

Dawn Staley: U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame Women’s Basketball player, WNBA Hall of Fame inductee, National Championship coach at University of South Carolina, Head Coach of USA Women’s Basketball.

 Carol Hutchins: Just retired yesterday (Aug. 24, 2022), NFCA Hall of Fame softball coach at University of Michigan, winningest coach in the history of UM athletics, 18 Big Ten Coach of the Year awards, founder of the Michigan Softball Academy

Alyssa Carson: Astronaut trainee with a goal of being selected for future human spaceflight to Mars. She is a mission researcher in suborbital space who enrolled in the NASA Possum Academy at age 15. Alyssa has her rocket license, advanced scuba certification, pilot license, skydiving class A license, and is a certified aquanaut.

Patty Gasso: NFCA Hall of Fame softball coach at Oklahoma University, 12-time Big 12 Coach of the Year, four-time National Championship coach

Alycia Baumgardner: Super-featherweight boxing champion, professional boxer, first female to sign a deal with King’s Promotions as a boxer, and founder of Temple Raw Juices.

(Emcee) Sydney Supple: Division 1 Softball player at Northwestern University entering her senior year studying Broadcast Journalism.