Olympic gold medalist Dorothy Hamill headlines high school sports leadership program at University of Richmond Sept. 8

September 6, 2007

Dorothy Hamill, 1976 world and Olympic women's figure skating champion, headlines a free leadership training program being offered to high school athletic captains and team leaders Sept. 8 at University of Richmond.

Coordinated by the university's Center for Educational Leadership and sponsored by local charities and businesses, the Heart of the Team program teaches Richmond-area interscholastic athletes to be principled leaders and role models, both on and off the playing fields. Around 60 student-athletes are expected to attend.

Spider men's basketball head coach Chris Mooney and women's field hockey head coach Gina Lucido will join Hamill in the 11 a.m. panel discussion. Several of the university's professors will lead other workshops during the event which runs from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. at Jepson Alumni Center. "Playbooks" highlighting key themes will be given to student participants.

Heart of the Team was launched in 2003 with sponsorship by the American Heart Association, Ukrop's Super Markets and Chesterfield Public Schools. The Center for Educational Leadership is a joint project of the university's Jepson School of Leadership Studies and School of Continuing Studies.

For more information, call Eric Loepp of the Center for Educational Leadership at (804) 516-2926, e-mail Loepp at eric.loepp@richmond.edu or see www.heartoftheteam.org.