It’s not often you’ll find a current newsy piece on our blog but this is SO important that it had to be shared and celebrated!
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Just the day before the England women’s football team were about to become European Champions, a footy tournament was taking place in London for girls’ teams. It was a huge success and, just like us, the Project behind it is focussed on breaking down barriers to sport - thank you Leanne for your efforts, the tournament and your write-up.
At the end of 2021, Caroline had for the fortune of interviewing GB’s Lizzy Yarnold. Now, if you’ve never heard of Lizzy, she is a former world champion skeleton athlete and skeleton gold medal winner at the 2014 and 2018 winter Olympic Games. She achieved a career grand slam in the 2014/2015 season by being crowned World Cup winner, , Olympic, European and World Champion! She is a bit of a sporting legend here in Britain and I can’t tell you what an honour it was to interview her (well, you’ll see in a minute as Caroline’s interviewing technique is enthusiastic to say the least!).
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Polly is a 15-year-old from Wales who loves to ski. She trained with a Canadian freestyle club in 2020 and won the Under 12’s Welsh Girls Freestyle Championship in 2019. She has just passed her Level 1 Canadian ski instructor course at only 14 and is going on to do her Level 2.
One day she hopes to work as a medic with the ski patrol.
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You might have seen us share some posts of people whirling around in a giant transparent cylinder and wondered what is going on! Well it’s indoor skydiving and Colorado based Kiana Adamson has shared with us her indoor sky diving story and what’s involved in the sport.
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This month should have been the Rugby League World Cup hosted here in the UK but due to the pandemic, it has been postponed to next year. It was great speaking to one of England’s stars, Amy Hardcastle, earlier in the year before we knew it had been moved to 2022.
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Do you know your epee from your foil? Your sabre from your stab? Well, have no fear, We are Girls in Sport is here to help with the stuff you need to know about the sport of fencing.
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The Florida GRID League is extremely diverse, so much so that men and women, boys and girls, play on the same team. Many of its athletes identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community so, as you’ll see, it’s a very welcoming sports community.
This sport is Florida based but growing in popularity and reach with athletes joining the league from all over the US and other parts of the globe. The format sounds fantastic and really exciting - a way to take your training to a new level .
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As mums that were passionate to help their very sporty daughters, we set out to make not only our daughters, but all those that have periods, lives easier. We believe that nobody should have to suffer the insecurities or embarrassments that period ‘accidents’ can cause. Research has shown that many girls stop participating in sport due to periods. We wanted our knickers to enable them to continue with sport and activity into womanhood, knowing that they will be completely secure and comfortable - enabling them to be a warrior not a worrier.
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Recently it was neurodiversity celebration week, and we couldn’t let it go by without celebrating neurodiverse athletes. Our aim is for any and every girl to be able to find a sporting role model – we really believe in ‘If you can’t see it, you can’t be it.’
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This week is Mental Health Awareness in the UK and the theme is Connect with Nature. When we think of nature, we might go to forests and green open spaces but the sea counts too!
Yvette Curtis must have the sea in her genes; half Mauritian, half British, in this week’s blog she explains how surfing and the sea helps her and her community be active, look after their mental health and be at one with nature.
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In our aim to showcase as many sports as possible, we’re starting at the beginning of our alphabet with A and bringing you archery! Read on to learn more about this sport which has its roots in days of old when bows and arrows were used in combat! Luckily, these days we’re talking more Olympic and Paralympic Games than The Hunger Games …
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I’m a national level tennis player and playing tennis has always been my passion. Ever since I picked up the racket at the age of four I knew that tennis was the sport for me, mentally and physically. I am 14 now so I have been playing for about nine years and those years have been full of experiences, achievements, challenges and learning.
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I’m Sarah Jackson and I got into sport for the same reason as almost everyone – for the love of it! I tried pretty much every sport under the sun growing up, and I’m still finding new sports to try, but windsurfing was my one true love and the harder I trained, the better I got. However, I didn’t start out trying to be the best in the world, or even wanting to be a professional windsurfer, I just wanted to be on the water as much as possible doing what I love!
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Given everything that’s going on in the world, it’s no wonder there has been a reported increase in teens experiencing depression and anxiety. But it doesn’t have to take a pandemic to cause high stress levels in our brain: school, exams, family, and even friendship drama, can cause the brain to respond with anxiety that prohibits us from feeling and doing our best.
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Do you ever feel as though you’re not sure what’s going on with your tween or teen girl? Has your daughter suddenly lost interest in exercise and you’re not sure why? Maybe she wants to participate more which is unusual.
Are you a teenager who wants to understand more about what’s going on with your body and mind?
We are Girls in Sport is here to help!
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In this week’s blog, we have the pleasure of interviewing Alex Wallace. Alex is the founder of The Mintridge Foundation, a registered charity dedicated to enhancing life skills in young people through sport. They provide a support network for young people by harnessing the power of positive sporting role models. Our team of Ambassadors – Olympians, Paralympians and other professional sports stars from over twenty sports, both team and individual ; work with young people in schools, clubs and academies across the UK.
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Here at We are Girls in Sport we know that there are lots of girls and young women out there who want to play sport but who are coming up against barriers. We think it’s great that we’ve discovered one company that has decided to help with that last barrier, providing teenage girls with some sports kit of their very own and the support they need to persevere.
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I’m a really enthusiastic person, and so everything I do, I give it all or nothing. I had been training twice a week when my coach said, “Do you want to take this seriously, and shoot for your county?” I wanted to be the next Olympic Gold Medallist and the best shooter the world has seen, so I said yes! I went to shoot for the county and then before I knew, I’d qualified second in juniors, first in ladies and third in seniors; cementing the fact that this was my sport!
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Rugby union used to be perceived as traditional, elitist, and dominated by men, but that impression is slowly shifting thanks to the rise of women’s rugby and the amazing women featured in this blog.
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