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:
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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:
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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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