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“Girls…Girls…Girls. Hello, girls!” One of my fave lines from that old flick, Arthur, starring the late Dudley Moore before he died.And that’s what it seemed like today at the National Girls and Women in Sports Day Luncheon at Earl Warren Showgrounds sponsored by the Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table. Girls – actually incredible young ladies – were everywhere!And it was here where Christa Gannon gave an “info-mercial on life.”Gannon, as you may recall, is a … [Read more...]
If wealth was measured by the positive impact someone has had on young people, Christa Gannon would be on the Forbes 400 list.It's fitting, then, that she used one of the most popular brands in youth pop culture today, the "Twilight" series, to impart lessons to over 500 young female athletes at Monday's Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table Women in Sports Luncheon.The former UCSB women's basketball All-American and founder of the non-profit Fresh Lifelines for Youth (FLY), said she's … [Read more...]
Is it really 2010?That question's made some people feel like time is flying by, and Carpinteria boys basketball coach John Ward felt the twinge of age at Monday's Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table luncheon."I've realized that this is the fifth decade of coming to the Round Table for me," he said.Ward is still years away from a senior discount, but the fact that he started attending the luncheons in the 70s means that he has indeed been coming to them for parts of five … [Read more...]
