Simply Sport Foundation

This Menstrual Hygiene Day, let’s move beyond just awareness and build environments where every girl feels informed, supported, and empowered. 🌸

At Simply Sport Foundation, we believe understanding your body is a strength — not a limitation.

Through resources like *Meri Udaan, Meri Pehchaan* and *Meri Khel Yatra*, we are working to make body literacy, menstrual health awareness, and wellbeing more accessible for school girls, young athletes, and grassroots communities across India.

Because periods should never become a barrier to sport, school, confidence, or opportunity.

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Building stronger athletes starts beyond the court.

🏸 We recently conducted the inaugural session of our multidisciplinary workshop series at the Simply Sport Badminton Academy. The session began with an insightful workshop for coaches on effective communication and its impact on junior athletes, led by Aditi Mutatkar.

This was followed by a parent assessment session conducted by Cheryl Xavier, focused on understanding the needs, challenges, and support systems surrounding young athletes. These sessions mark the beginning of many more workshops planned throughout the year, covering key areas of sport science, including nutrition, communication, mental health, physiology, injury management, and more.

Looking forward to creating a more informed, supportive, and athlete-centred sporting environment together.

We are proud to share that Head – Athlete and Women Initiatives at Simply Sport Foundation, represented our work at the 29th

Aditi’s participation came through the Girls Positive and Safe Coaching Pathway, a global program sponsored by Nike and designed to build safer, more inclusive, and more empowering sporting environments for girls.

In India, the program was implemented by the and who nominated Aditi to participate in the Pathway. Following this, she was selected from amongst coaches and sport practitioners across the world to be part of the global cohort invited to engage at TAFISA.

At the Congress, Aditi joined practitioners and leaders from across countries to contribute to conversations on:

safeguarding in sport
retaining girls in sport
menstruation and body positivity
creating coaching environments where girls feel safe, respected, and able to thrive

Representing Simply Sport Foundation, she shared learnings from our work in India — across female athlete health, menstrual literacy, safeguarding, and coach education — and reflected on the shifts we are witnessing on the ground when sport systems begin to take girls’ realities seriously.

For us, this recognition is deeply meaningful.

It affirms a belief that sits at the heart of our work:

Girls do not leave sport because they lack ambition. Too often, they leave because the systems around them were never designed to understand or support them.

We are grateful to and for creating and enabling such an important global platform — and proud that Simply Sport Foundation’s work from India is part of this larger movement to make sport safer, more inclusive, and more equitable for girls everywhere.

There is a challenge silently affecting girls across India — and most people still don’t recognise it.

It’s called Physical Literacy.

Not just the ability to play sport, but the confidence, motivation, knowledge, and opportunity to move for life.

Our latest Play to Be Active for Life report highlights a deeper issue:
• 44% of girls still struggle with basic movement skills
• Only 26% meet WHO daily activity guidelines
• 68% believe exercise during periods is unsafe — or are unsure
• Zero surveyed government schools had a structured movement curriculum

The challenge was never a lack of potential.
It was a lack of access, awareness, and support.

Because when girls are not taught how to move, they begin to believe they cannot.

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A condition silently affecting female athletes across India is finally being talked about.

Our Play Without Pause: Fuel Her Way report highlights critical findings on nutrition, menstrual health, and Low Energy Availability (LEA) among adolescent female athletes in India.

The report is now LIVE.
Read the full report here:https://simplysport.in/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Nutrition-Report.pdf

Let’s build a sporting ecosystem where girls are supported with the knowledge, nutrition, and care they deserve. 💙

The PIVOT Bootcamp, held between May 1–4 at Sports Academy, was about creating space for athletes to pause, reflect, and begin thinking about who they are beyond sport.

Over a few intense and deeply engaging days, athletes came together to collaborate, learn about leadership mindsets, navigate team dynamics, understand conflict and communication, negotiate ideas, and pitch bold projects for the future of sport.

But beyond the activities and sessions, the Bootcamp became a space for self-discovery. Many of these young women spend most of their lives focused on performance, selection, and results. At PIVOT, they were encouraged to recognise their athlete potential beyond the field — and understand how qualities they already possess through sport, such as resilience, discipline, teamwork, adaptability, and courage, translate into leadership and professional skills for life.

Through interactive leadership sessions, team challenges, communication exercises, negotiation simulations, and pitching workshops, the cohort slowly began shifting from seeing themselves only as athletes to recognising themselves as future leaders, professionals, entrepreneurs, and changemakers.

Some reflections that stayed with us:
* Leadership begins with self-awareness
* Strong teams are built through trust, communication, and productive conflict
* Confidence grows when ideas are tested, challenged, and refined
* The skills developed through sport can become powerful leadership capital beyond the field

And this journey continues. PIVOT now moves into online learning tracks focused on financial literacy, workplace communication, career awareness, professional development, and employability skills—helping athletes build sustainable futures beyond sport.

To the PIVOT Cohort of 2026: Thank you for embracing every conversation, challenge, activity, and moment of reflection with such openness and intent. Watching you grow more confident in your voices, ideas, and leadership potential over these few days was incredibly special.