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St. Louis Surge and the Licking Summer Camps Collaborate on Free Leadership Program
Licking Summer Camps Director Dave Almany is proud to announce a collaboration agreement between his organization and the St. Louis Surge Women’s Professional Basketball team. The two will join together this spring to conduct a leadership development program for high school girls. Girls Take Flight: Empowering Tomorrows’ Leaders Today; will be held on April 9, 2016 at Fox High School in Arnold, MO.
The free intense one day program will bring together select high school junior female basketball players from the St. Louis metro and surrounding states for the purpose of promoting and developing leadership skills. Participants will interact with successful female role models who have used their basketball experiences to launch productive post playing careers. Participants will be exposed to a well-researched leadership curriculum and will be encouraged upon mastery to return to their schools and share with fellow teammates and coaches the new leadership skills they have learned.
Surge Owner Khalia Collier completed her playing career at Missouri Baptist University in 2010. At age 23, she founded the Surge and became the youngest owner of a professional sports team in the United States. With a vision bigger than basketball, Collier has overseen a mercurial spiral of success. In 2014, her Surge won the championship of the Women’s Blue Chip Basketball League. The WBCBL is considered the second most competitive women’s pro basketball circuit in the nation, ranking only below the WNBA. In 2015, the Surge fell in the championship playoff round to the Charlotte, NC Invasion.
“Khalia is a very impressive business woman,” said Almany. “But more than just the on court success she has led the Surge to, what attracted us is her vision. Her players are role models in the community; mentors. Khalia has made the Surge a fixture in the circles of St. Louis girls’ basketball. We hope to help her foster beyond the St. Louis area the Surge’s culture of leadership, sportsmanship, teamwork and excellence. We have always stressed with our camps that it is more than just games, it is an experience. We are very excited about the potential of the Girls Take Flight program and our association with the Surge.”
St. Louis Surge and the Licking Summer Camps Collaborate on Free Leadership Program
Licking Summer Camps Director Dave Almany is proud to announce a collaboration agreement between his organization and the St. Louis Surge Women’s Professional Basketball team. The two will join together this spring to conduct a leadership development program for high school girls. Girls Take Flight: Empowering Tomorrows’ Leaders Today; will be held on April 9, 2016 at Fox High School in Arnold, MO.
The free intense one day program will bring together select high school junior female basketball players from the St. Louis metro and surrounding states for the purpose of promoting and developing leadership skills. Participants will interact with successful female role models who have used their basketball experiences to launch productive post playing careers. Participants will be exposed to a well-researched leadership curriculum and will be encouraged upon mastery to return to their schools and share with fellow teammates and coaches the new leadership skills they have learned.
Surge Owner Khalia Collier completed her playing career at Missouri Baptist University in 2010. At age 23, she founded the Surge and became the youngest owner of a professional sports team in the United States. With a vision bigger than basketball, Collier has overseen a mercurial spiral of success. In 2014, her Surge won the championship of the Women’s Blue Chip Basketball League. The WBCBL is considered the second most competitive women’s pro basketball circuit in the nation, ranking only below the WNBA. In 2015, the Surge fell in the championship playoff round to the Charlotte, NC Invasion.
“Khalia is a very impressive business woman,” said Almany. “But more than just the on court success she has led the Surge to, what attracted us is her vision. Her players are role models in the community; mentors. Khalia has made the Surge a fixture in the circles of St. Louis girls’ basketball. We hope to help her foster beyond the St. Louis area the Surge’s culture of leadership, sportsmanship, teamwork and excellence. We have always stressed with our camps that it is more than just games, it is an experience. We are very excited about the potential of the Girls Take Flight program and our association with the Surge.”
