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Many Ivy League institutions have their own celebrations for National Girls and Women in Sports Day, including special promotions and free admission to weekend contests. Following is a list of schools that will, celebrate National Girls and Women in Sports Day.

BROWN
Brown will be trying to "Blitz thePizz" on Mar. 8 during a women's basketball game against Harvard. We will try to break our all-time attendance record for women's basketball of 1,832. Girl Scouts of Rhode Island, various schools and organizations will be invited to attend the event. Various prizes will be given away from our sponsors.

COLUMBIA
In honor of its female athletes, Columbia will host a dinner on Feb.6 in LeFrak Gymnasium on Barnard's campus. Marcia Sells will be the guest speaker. Barnard president Judith Shapiro will be attendance, as will athletic director John Reeves and coaches. On Feb. 7, the 2002 Heptagonal Champion women's cross country team will be honored at halftime of the men's basketball game against Princeton. Also, the Greenwich Village Girls' Basketball League will compete at halftime of home a basketball game on Feb. 14, and on Feb. 15, we will be recognizing All-Ivy honorees for all sports at halftime of a Columbia/Dartmouth women's basketball game.

DARTMOUTH
Dartmouth hosted a variety of events for youth teams to attend Jan 31-Feb 2. All ticketed events such as the Penn/Dartmouth women's basktetball and Yale/Dartmouth women's hockey games (Jan.31) as well as the Princeton/Dartmouth basketball game (Feb. 2) were free for teams and pronotional give-aways such as T-shirts and posters were awarded. For all non-ticketed events (women's swimming, track and squash), the coaching staffs arranged receptions for the athletes and youth teams in attendance.

HARVARD
In recognition of National Girls and Women in Sports Day, the Harvard-Radcliffe Foundation for Women's Athletics (HRFWA) and the Harvard Department of Athletics are sponsoring a sports clinic Feb. 8 for middle-school girls from the Boston area. The clinics, to be taught by dozens of Harvard athletes and coaches, will feature instruction in volleyball, basketball, and water polo, and also include indoor field hockey and soccer games. The program runs from 10 a.m. to 12 noon at Harvard's Malkin Athletic Center (39 Holyoke Street) in Cambridge.Sessions run for approximately 30 minutes, where the young women will learn the basic skills of each sport. Following the clinics, there will be a lunch and a question and answer session with the athletes. Participants will also be given complimentary tickets to attend that day's home women's ice hockey game featuring the top-ranked Crimson against Vermont (4 p.m. at the Bright Hockey Center) and/or the women's basketball game vs. Yale (6 p.m. at Lavietes Pavilion)
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PRINCETON
Princeton's female varsity athletes will host interactive stations on Feb. 8 beginning at 5:15 pm in Jadwin Gym. Each team is responsible for designing, setting up and implementing an interactive stations where attendees can learn a skill for their sport. The interactive fair is followed by the women's basketball game against Cornell at 7:00 pm. The pre-game speaker will be Heather Deerin, a four-time All-Ivy soccer alumna. The Tigers have partnered with the Delaware- Raritan Girl Scouts and who usually brings about 800 members. Last year's total attendance last year was around 3,000. LUNA Bar who will be providing free bar samples, t-shirts and promotional items.