Women’s Football Expert Athletes Available for Interview
Women’s football expert athletes available for interview during women’s sports entrepreneur conference in Buffalo for the first time. Get your questions answered -- about sports opportunities for women to play, forge sports careers and become fans of the growing sports of women’s football.
WHAT: For the first time, Buffalo will host the Compete Sports Diversity Women’s Summit, a two-day conference with a media interview opportunity this week. The conference will focus on women athletes and sports leadership and the growing sport of women’s football. This includes flag football, which is set to debut as an Olympic sport at the 2028 Los Angeles games. Friday’s media event is an opportunity to meet entrepreneurial leaders in women’s football who are breaking glass ceiling in the business of women’s sports.
WHEN: 1:15 to 2 p.m., Friday, Sept. 20
WHERE: The Lexus Club on floor 2 in the KeyBank Center, 1 Seymour H Knox III Plaza.
WHO:
Mashonda Pascal-Gilmore, founder of Maryland-based Lynn Lewis Sports, a division of the breast cancer awareness nonprofit, the Lynn Lewis Foundation. (Link to background: https://thewfff.wordpress.com/operations-directors/)
April Christler, owner of Atlanta Phoenix, founder the Women’s National Football Conference and founder of Humano Premium Vodka. (Links to background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNZrapOCGlw and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxHg8DS8Kww).
WHY: The Buffalo conference, Thursday and Friday Sept. 19 and 20, is one of a series held around the country. It takes a thoughtful TED-Talk approach to sessions and panel discussions about empowering women to pursue leadership roles and work toward strengthening women’s sports and developing gender diversity and leadership within men’s sports.
In addition to discussions about opportunities for women’s sports business careers, leadership, entrepreneurship, the meeting will include conversation about the growing sport of women’s football and flag football. Plans are in the works for a women’s flag football tournament in Buffalo