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News Release

October 29, 2009

Contact: Chris DeFrancesco, 860-679-3914
e-mail: cdefrancesco@uchc.edu 

PHOTOS: Rizzotti at UConn Health Center Program for Girls

Emphasis on Injury Prevention in Middle School Athletes

FARMINGTON, CONN. – Former UConn women’s basketball great Jennifer Rizzotti, now coach of the University of Hartford women’s team, was the special guest at a girls’ sports injury prevention program at the UConn Health Center October 25. More information and photos are available at http://today.uchc.edu.

Photo: http://today.uchc.edu/images/news/athletes_rizzotti.jpg
Caption: Kaileen Langois, 11, of Berlin, gets a high five from Jennifer Rizzotti after a round of mini-hoops at the UConn Health Center, where Rizzotti was a guest speaker at a sports injury prevention program for middle school girls October 25.

Photo: http://today.uchc.edu/images/news/athletes_walk.jpg
Caption: Jennifer Rizzotti (third from left) joins a group of middle school athletes on a power walk at the UConn Health Center during a sports injury prevention program there October 25.

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