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  1. Unpublished

    Sports Diplomacy and Senegal: Empowering Women and Girls through Basketball

    The Senegalese girls take part in a friendly basketball scrimmage at a D.C.-area gym.

    The Empowering Women and Girls through Sports Initiative’s 2013 calendar tipped off with the Senegal Sports Visitor basketball program.

  2. Sports Diplomacy Softball Envoys: A Hit in Nicaragua

    As a member of the State Department’s Council to Empower Women and Girls through Sports, Jessica Mendoza truly engaged in “fieldwork” by leading a softball clinic for teenage girls in Nicaragua.

    Under the Department’s Empowering Women and Girls through Sports Initiative, Olympians Jessica Mendoza and Ruby Rojas went to Nicaragua as sports envoys in February of 2013.

  3. Sports Visitors from the Dominican Republic and Venezuela

    During a time-out, the young coaches receive a history lesson about the World Baseball Classic.

    Organized to coincide with the World Baseball Classics, ECA had a Sports Visitor program for baseball and softball youth coaches from March 1 to 11, 2013.

  4. Building Bonds with Burma through Basketball

    Burmese teenage girls practice their skills together at a D.C.-area high school.

    Sports Diplomacy tipped off 2013 with the first-ever State Department Burmese sports visitor program.

  5. Global Sports Mentoring Program Exchange Alumna Becomes first Macedonian Woman to Climb Mount Everest

    Ilina Arsova, Global Sports Mentoring Program Alumna, becomes the first Macedonian woman to climb to the summit of Mount Everest.

    Ilina Arsova, a mountain climber from Macedonia and alumnae of the State Department and espnW Global Sports Mentoring Program, is reaching new heights to engage women and girls in sports.

  6. One-on-one with Sports Envoy Sam Perkins and Sports Visitor Joseline Kenyi from South Sudan

    South Sudan Sports Visitors.

    In November 2012, Sports Diplomacy brought five South Sudanese coaches to the U.S. for a 10-day dynamic people-to-people exchange focused on developing youth basketball programs in the country.

  7. Unpublished

    Sports Visitor Program Promotes Disability Rights

    State Department and U.S. Embassy Brasilia focused its Sports Visitor program on people with disabilities.

  8. Unpublished

    Sports Visitors to China Focus on Underserved Populations, Youth with Disabilities

    U.S. Ambassador to China Max Baucus, a former Senator from Montana, meets with the Sport for Social Change group at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.

    The University of Montana conducted a two-way exchange between participants from the U.S. and China to share best practices, as well as receive training in project management and development.

  9. Unpublished

    Brazil and Basketball: Athletes from Sao Paulo

    The Brazilian visitors work on dribbling by performing one-handed push-ups.

    ECA hosted 14 teenage athletes—seven boys and seven girls—and two coaches from Brazil in the U.S. for a basketball exchange from February 6 to 18, 2013.

  10. Empowering Women & Girls Through Sports

    Empowering Women & Girls Through Sports

    In the midst of the NCAA's March Madness, the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announced an international sports exchange that brought 18 teenage girl athletes and 6 female coaches from all corners of the globe to Washington, D.C., and Denver, Colorado as part of the Empowering Women and Girls Through Sports Initiative.

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