
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The organizing committee of the Congressional Ladies’s Softball Sport (CWSG) is thrilled to announce the date of the seventeenth annual recreation benefiting the Younger Survival Coalition (YSC). The sport will happen at 7:35 pm ET on Wednesday, July 16, 2025 at a brand new location – Audi Discipline, positioned at 100 Potomac Avenue, SW in Washington, D.C.
“We’re extremely proud to host the 2025 Congressional Ladies’s Softball Sport right here at Audi Discipline. It’s greater than only a recreation—it’s a celebration of sportsmanship, group, and unity. It is a incredible family-friendly occasion that brings individuals of all ages collectively, and we’re honored to help a practice that advantages such an essential trigger within the Younger Survival Coalition (YSC),” mentioned Danita Johnson, President of Enterprise Operations.
“I get so excited yearly to take the sector with my colleagues on Staff Congress and our Dangerous Information Babes media rivals as we each attempt to strike out breast most cancers and lift consciousness for younger ladies about its dangers,” mentioned Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who co-founded the sport after a breast most cancers analysis at age 41. “And shifting our actually bipartisan recreation on to Audi Discipline and the Monumental Sports activities Community airwaves will make a fair greater affect. I do know firsthand that schooling and consciousness resulting in early detection for ladies 45 and underneath generally is a life saver. This recreation raises each consciousness and important funds for our YSC allies. Constructing a community of help for younger girls is how we beat and get well from breast most cancers, and with the assistance of our superior new companions, we’ll assist save much more lives.”
“We’re so completely happy, in these powerful occasions, we will all come collectively for some collegial competitors and the shared aim of beating most cancers,” mentioned Emily Goodin, co-captain of the press crew, often known as the Dangerous Information Babes.
“The sport is a extremely distinctive, enjoyable occasion and the press crew is honored to play alongside members of Congress from each side of the aisle,” mentioned co-captain Katie Lobosco.
The Congressional Ladies’s Softball Sport is a enjoyable family-friendly occasion. There might be loads of scrumptious meals together with frozen treats and ice-cold drinks.The Youngsters’ Enjoyable Zone will function actions like face portray, cornhole, and a photograph sales space.
New sponsor, Monumental Sports activities & Leisure (MSE), will broadcast the sport dwell on their impartial media platform Monumental Sports activities Community (MNMT) – the native rights holder for the Washington Capitals, Wizards, and Mystics – marking the primary time the sport might be broadcasted on their community, just like the Congressional Baseball Sport on C-SPAN. In case you can’t make it to the sport, be sure you tune in on July sixteenth at 7pm ET.
It’s a super honor for Monumental Sports activities Community to carry the power and spirit of the Congressional Ladies’s Softball Sport to viewers all through the DMV area for the very first time,” mentioned Zach Leonsis, President of Media & New Enterprises at MSE. “This broadcast displays our deep dedication to utilizing our platform to uplift cornerstone group traditions like this one, and to have a good time the tales and moments that outline the nationwide capital area and replicate its distinctive political panorama. We’re proud to help this distinctive, bipartisan custom that brings consideration to breast most cancers consciousness and advocacy — and we view it as a part of our broader mission to champion and elevate girls’s sports activities throughout our community.”
MNMT will present a full broadcast crew that includes the community’s on-air expertise for the sport, together with fan-favorite Capitals play-by-play announcer Joe Beninati. MNMT’s Chris Cillizza may also take part within the broadcast as an extension of his function internet hosting Politics Apart with Chris Cillizza, a brand new program on MNMT that delves into the intersection of sports activities and our nation’s most influential political figures.
Followers taken with watching the sport can view the dwell broadcast by their Pay TV subscription, on monumentalplus.com, or by downloading the state-of-the-art Monumental+ app on iOS, Android, Apple TV, Roku, Vizio, LG, and Amazon Hearth TV and utilizing an eligible TV In every single place log-in or signing up for an MNMT membership.
For over 15 years, CWSG has been a cornerstone of the Capitol Hill summer time calendar, uniting group members in help of breast most cancers sufferers and survivors.Along with fundraising for YSC, the night raises consciousness in regards to the prevalence of breast most cancers in younger adults and highlights the significance of early screening.
“Younger Survival Coalition (YSC) is honored to be the benefiting charity of this distinctive bipartisan occasion. Because of the arduous work and dedication of everybody concerned, we’re capable of present important sources, significant connections, and life-changing schooling that empower younger adults affected by breast most cancers—by analysis and nicely past” mentioned Jennifer Merschdorf, Survivor and CEO of Younger Survival Coalition.
Returning high sponsors embody Viatris, Lennar Basis, McDonald’s, AIG, Comcast NBCUniversal, GE HealthCare, Nestle Purina, Spotify, Aflac, American Faculty of Radiology/RADPAC, U.S. Journey Affiliation, Anheuser-Busch Basis, The Estee Lauder Firms, IDFA Ladies in Dairy, Nationwide Affiliation of Realtors, Nationwide Corn Growers Affiliation, Netflix, Nike, Photo voltaic Power Industries Affiliation, Southwest Airways, and Visa. Moreover, CWSG is grateful for the help of a number of new sponsors to date this 12 months, together with Monumental Sports activities & Leisure, Fanatics, Axogen, Capital One, Metropolis of Hope, Mindset, ROKK Options and FundPlay Basis.
Tickets will go on sale quickly! Sponsorships nonetheless accessible!
The bipartisan Members of Congress will play the ladies members of the Washington, D.C. Press Corps. Each groups have finalized their rosters, and are excited to battle it out on the sector and take residence this 12 months’s trophy.
In regards to the CWSG
The Congressional Ladies’s Softball Sport started in 2009 with captains Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Rep. Jo Ann Emerson (R-MO), Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). In 2010, the Member Staff requested the ladies of the Washington, D.C. press corps to affix the sport as their opponent and a long-lasting rivalry was born. Previous the seventeenth annual recreation, the Congressional Ladies’s Softball Sport has now raised $4.3M for the Younger Survival Coalition (YSC) because the Sport started and has turn into a staple of Capitol Hill summer time actions.
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About Monumental Sports activities Community
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