BALTIMORE – Loyola University Maryland Athletics will welcome back several alumni on Thursday, December 2, to participate a panel – How It Started, How It's Going – that will focus on areas of women's athletics at the school over the last five decades.
 
The forum is part of the Greyhounds' 50 Years of Women's Athletics celebration that will also include their annual Women In Sports Day on Sunday, January 30, as well additional events during the spring.
 
The How It Started, How It's Going panel will look back at experiences from different eras of Loyola women's athletics and will start at 7 p.m. Sheehan Stanwick Burch, a former All-American women's lacrosse player and current college sports analyst and reporter for CBS Sports Network, will host the evening as the panel's moderator.
 
Loyola alumnae Maureen O'Neill Ciesielski '76 (women's basketball), Holly Martin '00 (women's tennis), Suzanne Eyler '03 (women's lacrosse), Molly Wolf '16 (women's lacrosse) and Ann Ernst '20 (women's volleyball) will participate in the forum to discuss issues such as recruiting, student support, diversity, careers and how far women's athletics have come as it pertains to their time at Loyola.

They will be joined on the panel by a trio of current Loyola student-athletes, women's rowing's Delaney Gibbons, women's soccer's Grace Li, swimming and diving's McClain Hermes and cross country and track and field's Carly Spinnler.
 
The event is free and open to the public with Loyola COVID policies in effect. Register today for the event!
 
Supporters can consider celebrating the 50 Years of Loyola Women's Athletics with a tax-deductible to donation to a women's sport program and the Loyola Women's Athletics Excellence Fund.
 
This newly established fund will bolster the pre-existing Greyhounds Athletics Fund, ensuring the access to leadership development, conferences and the annual Women in Sports Day event for Loyola's female student-athletes.
 
Beyond competition and the classroom, there are incredible opportunities to develop and prepare our student-athletes for life after graduation. However, these experiences generate additional expenses for the athletics department and the Loyola Women's Athletics Excellence Fund will provide these opportunities. 
 
For more information on how to make a philanthropic contribution to a Loyola Women's sport program or the Loyola Women's Athletics Excellence Fund, please reach out to Brian Schultz, '14 (bmschultz@loyola.edu) or Bailey Mathis, '17 (blmathis@loyola.edu).