ALUMNI PERSPECTIVE - What it means to be a BenGal

This email was submitted by new Alumni member, Karen K. ('89-'93). Karen's message captures the true bond of sisterhood formed as a member of the BenGals. Thank you for sharing, Karen!

Hello Daphne,

Last night was a lot of fun. Thank you for putting it together. We need to keep up this tradition every year and invite more girls each time. There are hundreds of girls from years past. It is great to see my Ben-Gal friends any time and we have so much fun together. There is a group of us that have remained friends since we all left the field the same year in January of 1993. We were in each others weddings, were pregnant at the same time and now our kids play together. It is always nice to see and meet the new girls too and good they can see what a lifelong bond they are forming.

Being a Ben-Gal was hard work and you have to be an athlete as well as have beauty and poise out in public. It’s not as easy as people think right? It is fun and exhilarating and very, very hard at the same time. (Hot sunny days are especially hard to dance in with not much water or breaks!) This is something you carry with you forever though as you were able to see from some of the alumni there last night in their early to late forties. All the girls still got it! The new girls were all very pretty and seem like they are just getting their feet wet. You could tell some of them seemed hesitant to open up but that comes with time.

Thanks again for putting it together last night and we did have a great time. It forced us moms to get out!

Karen K.
Ben-Gal
1989-1993