TAMPA BAY\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Tampa Bay Lightning will recognize and celebrate the impact of women across the sports industry during Women in Sports Night, presented by Raymond James, on March 10 when the Bolts take on the Columbus Blue Jackets. The initiative highlights the organization\u2019s commitment to supporting women in sports through internal programming, in\u2011game elements and community partnerships.<\/p>\n
Throughout the evening, fans will see an all\u2011women in\u2011game hosting team, recognition of local girls\u2019 hockey programs and features spotlighting female staff, artists and community partners. Additional programming will include a female DJ on the Plaza, a diaper collection drive supporting the Tampa Bay Diaper Bank and new women\u2019s apparel introduced in the Team Store along with a local\u2011artist collaboration shirt.<\/p>\n
The Lightning will feature a Women in Sports logo for the night that was designed by local artist Gillian Fazio. The concept honors the power in equality through symbols of bravery, strength, resilience, complexity and growth, emphasizing mutual respect amid differences and the courage to radiate authenticity. The design will be woven into the game presentation and jerseys featuring the design will be auctioned to benefit nonprofit organizations supporting women via the Lightning Foundation. The auction can be found at\u00a0tblwomeninsport.givesmart.com<\/a>\u00a0and will run through March 25th\u00a0at 6:00PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA BAY\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Tampa Bay Lightning will recognize and celebrate the impact of women across the sports industry during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-184293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}