INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 The Circle City is in the spotlight this week for the WNBA All-Star Game. Activities and events surrounding women’s basketball have been scheduled throughout the week to celebrate the game and inspire more young athletes to get involved.<\/p>\n
At IU Indy’s campus, a special two-day basketball clinic is giving girls the opportunity to learn the game while also gaining valuable life skills.<\/p>\n
Campers of varying skill levels and from across the country gathered to participate in drills and games. Kaylin Moorehead, who plays at IU Indy, was helping out.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt means everything just to give back and pour energy into the girls and be a mentor in some kind of way,\u201d said Moorehead.<\/p>\n
The clinic is a collaboration between the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation, Group 1001 and the Women\u2019s Sports Foundation. Their mission: to use sports as a tool to uplift and open doors for girls.<\/p>\n
\u201cHere we just really want to introduce the girls to basketball and sport in general,\u201d said Morgan Murphy with Group 1001. \u201cWe know how much sports can open up doors for girls and youth of all different ages.\u201d<\/p>\n
For many, it\u2019s a brand new experience.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI\u2019ve played basketball with my friends, but I\u2019ve never played competitively, so this is like a first for me, and I enjoy it so far,\u201d said Isabella Mordasiewicz, who traveled from Connecticut to attend.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou get to make friends, and overall it\u2019s a great learning experience,\u201d Mordasiewicz added. \u201cYou get to learn from the college athletes and get to meet a bunch of new people.\u201d<\/p>\n
With the WNBA All-Star Game in town, many campers said they\u2019ve found inspiration in watching professional athletes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love the WNBA, that really inspired me to actually play basketball, really,\u201d one camper shared.<\/p>\n
Off the court, the girls worked on vision boards and STEM activities, reinforcing the idea that success goes beyond sports.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing able to sprinkle in some empowerment, some life lessons in there is really wonderful as well \u2014 to not just uplift them as athletes but in their regular lives as well,\u201d said Murphy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIANAPOLIS \u2014 The Circle City is in the spotlight this week for the WNBA All-Star Game. Activities and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,4132,48,4133,4131,82,630,1872],"class_list":["post-3072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-cal-ripken-foundation","tag-canada","tag-group-1001","tag-iu-indy","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-all-star-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}