Stanford Athletics and the Stanford women's basketball program will celebrate the 33rd Annual National Girls & Women in Sports Day on Saturday, Feb. 2 as part of the women's basketball game vs. Cal.
For more than three decades, this celebration has empowered women and girls to get moving, reap the benefits of physical activity and push past their limits both in sports and in life. The confidence, strength and character gained through sports and physical activity are the very tools needed to become strong leaders in life and in the world. This year we hope to honor the many ways that sports push girls and women to achieve excellence and realize their boundless potential.
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Join Us For A Day To Remember
Pregame Panel Event
2 PM – 3 PM | Arrillaga Practice Gym
Pregame Meet & Greet With Stanford Teams
3 PM – 4 PM | Maples Pavilion Concourse
Tipoff vs. Cal
4 PM | Maples Pavilion
As long as you have tickets for the women's basketball game vs. Cal, you have access to the prgame panel and meet & greet on the concourse.
Have a group of 15 or more? Large groups can enjoy discounted tickets to the game, reserved seats at the panel and a Stanford mini basketball hoop. Call (800)-STANFORD (option 3), email groupsales@stanford.edu or purchase online to secure your group tickets.
Meet These Inspiring Women At The Pregame Panel
Tami Alade
Tami just completed her senior season with the Stanford women's volleyball team. The 6'2'' Canadian native is a two-time national champion, AVCA All-American and human biology major. Tami would like to pursue a career in medicine working with children. She has participated in the Stanford Immersion in Medicine Series, shadowing Dr. Ronald Cohen in the Neonatal ICU, where she gained valuable clinical experience interacting with patients and their families, engaging in diagnoses and adapting to a medical environment. Tami is also the co-president of the community service branch for the Stanford Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC).
Amelia Boone
Amelia is a full-time corporate attorney, obstacle racer, and ultrarunner. Dubbed "The Queen of Pain," Amelia is a 4x world champion and one of the most decorated obstacle racers in history.
Areta Buness
Areta is a senior midfielder on the Stanford women's lacrosse team. Last season she was a member of the inaugural Pac-12 Tournament championship team and was named to the All-Pac-12 second team, Pac-12 All-Academic second team and IWLCA Academic honor roll. Hailing from Paradise Valley, Arizona, Areta is a biology major, has one older brother and enjoys skiing and scuba diving in her free time.
She traveled with the team to Fiji and New Zealand over the summer, where they participated in some humanitarian efforts. When she returned to Stanford, she worked in environmental engineering research at the Spormann Lab in the Clark Center, which included a project with sulfate-reducing bacteria in the gut microbiome that serve as biomarkers of inflammation.
Kate Courtney
Kate competes on the Specialized Bicycles Factory Racing Team, is supported by Redbull and is a member of the USA Cycling National Team. She is a 12 time National Champion and is the current Women's Elite Cross Country National Champion. In 2017, she also won four U23 World Cups and earned the U23 Overall World Cup victory. Outside of cycling, Kate is a recent graduate from Stanford University with a Bachelors in Human Biology.
Shaluinn Fullove
Shaluinn Fullove, currently a Senior HTBP Manager at Google, is a former distance runner at Stanford and two-time qualifier for the U.S. Olympic Team Trials who has had her endurance, determination, perseverance and courage tested since 2005 when she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer.
Madison Haley
Madison is a rising junior forward on the Stanford women's soccer team. She has represented the United States at the U14, U15, U17 and U18 levels and is a current member of the U-20 national team. In her two seasons with Stanford, Madison has scored seven goals with nine assists in 34 appearances – the Cardinal is 45-2-2 in her two seasons. A native of Dallas, Madison comes from a family of athletes including her father Charles, brother C.J. and sister Princess, all of whom played sports collegiately.
Kaylee Johnson (Moderator)
Kaylee is a sister to four, Wyoming native and recent Stanford graduate. Seventh in school history in rebounds and a two-time team captain, last year she finished her fourth season with the women's basketball team and graduated with a degree in political science. She is currently deciding where she will be attending law school next fall.
*Additional panelists to be announced.
Meet These Teams On The Concourse
Cheer
Golf
Gymnastics
Lightweight Rowing
Sailing
Softball
Track & Field
*Additional teams to be announced.
Learn More About This Year's Panelists
Amelia Boone
Amelia Boone is a full-time corporate attorney, obstacle racer, and ultrarunner. Dubbed "The Queen of Pain," Amelia is a 4x world champion and one of the most decorated obstacle racers in history. Over her career, she's amassed more than 50 podiums and 30 victories in obstacle racing. Highlights include:
- 3x winner of the World's Toughest Mudder (2012, 2014, 2015)
- Spartan Race World Champion 2013
- Spartan Race Points Series Champion (2013 & 2015)
- 3x Death Race Finisher (Winter 2012, Summer 2012, Summer 2013)
But Amelia is not just a professional athlete – she has risen to the top of the sport while simultaneously working as a full-time corporate attorney at some of the largest law firms and companies in the world. She is the ultimate "weekend warrior," juggling the demands of a dual career.
Amelia has been profiled in or featured in major publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Time, Outside Magazine, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, Entrepreneur, Men's Health, Women's Running, Competitor Magazine, Playboy, and the Chicago Tribune, and has appeared on the cover of Runner's World (twice), Outside Magazine, Chicago Athlete, and Metcon magazine. She has been named a "Rising Star" by Outside Magazine and selected as one of the "50 Fittest Women" by Sports Illustrated.
Amelia appears regularly on national television, both as an athlete and as a featured commentator and analyst. She has worked as an analyst on both ESPN and CBS Sports, and her athletic feats and story are featured prominently throughout all three seasons of NBC & NBC Sports show "Spartan Race."
When Amelia's not out on an obstacle course, you'll find her nurturing a budding ultra running obsession, working as a full-time attorney, or watching wrestling pay-per-views. Most likely with a box of Pop-Tarts or a bag of ketchup chips in hand.
Shaluinn Fullove
Shaluinn Fullove, currently a Senior HTBP Manager at Google, is a former distance runner at Stanford and two-time qualifier for the U.S. Olympic Team Trials who has had her endurance, determination, perseverance and courage tested since 2005 when she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer.
After going under the knife, she ran her second marathon that same year to demonstrate to herself that she had overcome her diagnosis, with sights set on the 2008 Olympic Trials. She found time to train while maintaining her job at Google with the help of her previous manager and team.
Nearly 10 years later, in 2014, her life took another unexpected turn after a scheduled test came back positive with the BRCA2 mutation. Technically there was no cancer, only the probability. The genetics test revealed that Fullove ran the risk of breast cancer at 84 percent, with a chance of ovarian cancer closer to 27 percent.
Fullove reconciled with the notion that her future required the likelihood of a life-altering procedure, just not yet. Unable to predict what her body would be like after surgery, Fullove turned her focus to qualifying for the 2016 Olympic Trials in Los Angeles.
She didn't finish the race on Feb. 13, 2016, but she accomplished her goal of qualifying. Her next adversary wasn't the finish line. Fullove opted to undergo a double mastectomy in January 2017, which was followed by breast reconstruction surgery at the end of May.
Recovery wasn't easy, but it didn't take long before Fullove returned to training for cross country races. If all goes according to plan, expect an attempt at qualifying for the 2020 Olympic Trials. But for Fullove, life is not a sprint. It's a marathon.
Fullove joined a track team at the age of 5 while growing up in Los Angeles and turned into a CIF state Division IV cross country champion in 1995 as a senior at Louisville High in Woodland Hills.
As a freshman at Stanford, she was a member of 1996 NCAA championship team in cross country. Four years later, Fullove graduated with a degree in American Studies.
In order to scratch that running itch, she considered the marathon a natural progression. Fullove got a job at Google in 2002 and lives within vicinity of Castilleja School in Palo Alto, where she coaches cross country and track.
Kate Courtney
Kate Courtney was born in 1995 and grew up in Marin County, California at the base of Mount Tamalpais, the birthplace of mountain biking. Kate was introduced to cycling at a young age - riding on the back of a tandem mountain bike with her dad to get pancakes on Sunday mornings. After joining the Branson High School mountain bike team as a Freshman, her interest in the sport escalated quickly. During high school, she competed for the USA National Team and Whole Athlete Development Team in events around the World. In 2012, she became the first American woman to win a UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in the Junior category. When Kate graduated high school in 2013, she continued on to Stanford University and signed her first professional contract with Specialized Bicycles.
Kate continues to compete on the Specialized Bicycles Factory Racing Team, is supported by Redbull and is a member of the USA Cycling National Team. She is a 12 time National Champion and is the current Women's Elite Cross Country National Champion. In 2017, she also won four U23 World Cups and earned the U23 Overall World Cup victory. Outside of cycling, Kate is a recent graduate from Stanford University with a Bachelors in Human Biology. Since graduating, Kate turned her focus fully to her career as a professional athlete.
In 2018, Kate took on the Cape Epic Stage race together with her teammate Annika Langvad. The pair won seven individual stages and took the Overall team victory which marks the first time an American has won the event. During the World Cup season, in her first year as an Elite Racer, Kate placed in the top 10 at six World Cups and finished the season in 8th place Overall. The year ended on a high note when Kate came from behind to win the 2018 Elite XC World Championships in Lenzerheide, Switzerland. With this victory, Kate became the first American in 17 years to win an Elite MTB World Championship and only the fourth American woman to do so. Moving forward, Kate will be targeting the World Cup series with an eye towards the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.