One-half of girls who participate in some kind of sports experience higher than average levels of self-esteem and less depression (Colton & Gore, Risk Resilience & resistance, Current research on adolescent girls, MS Foundation.)

More than four out of five executive business women (82%) played sports growing up and the vast majority say that lessons learned on the playing filed have contributed to their success in business, according to the results of a national survey. (Game face, from the locker room to the Boardroom: )