Ideagen Global - Catalyze Magazine - October 2023
With Ideagen's extensive member network and influential platform, Catalyze Magazine serves as an aggregate for all content, events, articles, and collaborations of Ideagen Global. It is a monthly magazine where you will find transcriptions from Ideagen events, content, articles, and information surrounding how we are completing our mission. With this magazine, we want to highlight the nature of cross-sector collaboration and how we infuse it into our daily mission on a global scale.
With Ideagen's extensive member network and influential platform, Catalyze Magazine serves as an aggregate for all content, events, articles, and collaborations of Ideagen Global. It is a monthly magazine where you will find transcriptions from Ideagen events, content, articles, and information surrounding how we are completing our mission. With this magazine, we want to highlight the nature of cross-sector collaboration and how we infuse it into our daily mission on a global scale.
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AN IDEAGEN GLOBAL EXCLUSIVE<br />
Supporting & Advocating in<br />
Women’s Athletics<br />
With Former Professional Basketball Player and Current Sportscaster &<br />
Journalist Theodora Panteli<br />
Theodora Panteli: Former Professional<br />
Basketball Player and Current Sportscaster<br />
Peggy Pelonis: As a former basketball<br />
player and now sports commentator, how<br />
are you currently supporting women in<br />
sports, particularly in the context of<br />
basketball in the Euroleague, and what<br />
inspired you to become an advocate of<br />
women in sports?<br />
Theodora Panteli: To begin with the<br />
second part of your question, I think the<br />
way I grew up is what motivated me to be<br />
an advocate for women's sports. Coming<br />
from an underprivileged environment that<br />
was not setting me up for success, I found<br />
basketball as a place where I could find<br />
success, and that would give me the tools<br />
to be successful.<br />
Theodora: I developed skills like<br />
discipline, understanding the importance<br />
of teamwork, being persistent, and even<br />
setting myself up for failure because we<br />
live in an era where we are not allowed to<br />
fail. We have to be flawless, like on social<br />
media, where everybody is looking to be<br />
perfect, and that's not right. We need to<br />
teach kids that it's okay to make a mistake<br />
and to fail. That's the only way you learn.<br />
Growing up in sports and adopting these<br />
skills that I now apply to what I do, it's<br />
inevitable to be an advocate for female<br />
athletes because I understand the power<br />
that sports have.<br />
Theodora: For me, seeing opportunities<br />
that females can have through sports<br />
makes me want to do even more. Going<br />
back to when I was playing basketball, I<br />
grew up in an area without social media,<br />
and it was hard for me to get a<br />
scholarship.<br />
I was lucky enough to be one of the first<br />
girls to get an NCAA basketball<br />
scholarship for a university in the United<br />
States. That started opening doors for<br />
other girls to come after me.<br />
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