Registration Open for Schreiber Institute for Women’s Leadership Annual Inspiration Event, Celebrate 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 2, 2025
February 27, 2025 “Winning Her Way” Event Highlights Strong Connections Between Sports, Coaching, Leadership and Life
Green Bay, Wis.— With all eyes on Green Bay and the NFL draft this spring, the intersection of sports and leadership, particularly for women, is the focus of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay’s Schreiber Institute for Women’s Leadership 2025 Celebrate event. The annual opportunity to celebrate and inspire women across the region takes place Thursday, February 27, from 2 p.m. –
5 p.m. at The Weidner.
Attendees will hear from two former standout women’s college athletes – both Wisconsin natives who competed successfully on college teams in their home state—and have evolved their sports experiences into business and advocacy, encouraging women to continue leading and paving the way for those coming behind them.
Keynote speaker Alicia Pelton, Program Director for Coaching HER at the University of Minnesota Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport, will deliver a keynote on Playing Outside the Lines: Breaking Barriers and Leading in Sport and Life. In her presentation, Pelton will delve into how managing emotional and mental well-being through life’s highs and lows is key to overcoming barriers, embracing successes and pushing forward—breaking traditional boundaries in both sport and leadership along the way.
Pelton has over 30 years of experience in youth sports, advocating for gender equity in sports and has championed the advancement of girls’ sports while advocating for women in leadership roles. She actively engages the community to grow the game for females from participation to leadership roles on a state-wide youth through high school level. In 2018, Alicia was one of the founding members of the Wisconsin Women’s Soccer Advisory Council, which celebrates females in soccer. She is one of the principle advocates responsible for growing girls hockey in Wisconsin, now the fastest growing girls hockey state, by 25%, in three years.
In addition, NCAA Division I Head Women’s Volleyball Coach and Senior UW-Green Bay Administrator Abbey Sutherland will be a guest speaker at the event, sharing how to be an advocate for people and a promoter of holistic growth. Sutherland was named 2018 Horizon League Coach of the Year and is a graduate of the 2019 NCAA Women Coaches Academy Class #48. She just completed her sixth season at the University.
Women from across the region and those who mentor and supervise them—including men—are encouraged to attend the event. Feel free to bring a friend, co-worker, or an entire group. Large groups are welcomed with block seating. Cost for the evening is $50 per person. Institute members receive a 25% discount, $30, and UW-Green Bay faculty, staff and students are free. To learn more about the Celebrate 2025 event and to register please visit the website.
About Coaching HER
Coaching HER® provides evidence-based information that helps coaches become aware, understand, and support the girls they coach by supporting girls’ needs and honoring identities, without reproducing harmful gender stereotypes and bias.
About the NCAA Women Coaches Academy
Hosted in partnership between WeCOACH and the NCAA, the Women Coaches Academy is a 4-day educational training available to NCAA coaches of all experience levels and is designed for women coaches who are ready to increase their individual effectiveness by learning advanced skills and strategies that directly affect their personal and team success.
About the Schreiber Institute for Women’s Leadership
UW-Green Bay’s Schreiber Institute for Women’s Leadership is dedicated to engaging, inspiring and empowering the next generation of women leaders to ensure a strong and equitable leadership pipeline. The University established the Institute in 2021, recognizing the region’s growing need for a pipeline of women leaders and the distinct challenges faced by professional women in the workplace. The Institute is a comprehensive leadership resource committed to providing ongoing, forward-thinking networking, education and inspiration to support women as they rise.
The Institute presents wide-ranging programs, events, and research, benefiting women with access to experts and supportive networks. Leadership certificate programs, a monthly speakers series featuring notable women throughout the area sharing their stories to leadership, monthly networking events, a women’s mentorship program, an annual leadership retreat, workshops and discussion groups are offered to support women’s professional development needs. Equally important, the Institute works to increase communities’ knowledge and awareness of issues related to women in leadership and advance new knowledge about women and leadership in the State of Wisconsin through benchmarking data on women in business and research about women and leadership.
About UW-Green Bay
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is a school of resilient problem solvers who dare to reach higher with the power of education that ignites growth and answers the biggest challenges. Serving 11,118 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students as well as 85,883 continuing education learners annually, UW-Green Bay offers 200 academic degrees, programs, and certificates. With four campus locations in Northeast Wisconsin, the University’s access mission welcomes all students who want to learn, from every corner of the world. Championing bold thinking since opening its doors in 1965, it is a university on the rise – Wisconsin’s fastest-growing UW. For more information, visit www.uwgb.edu.
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