Women in Sport Waitaha

We'd love to see you at our next Breakfast!

Details below, please register first (it's free!)
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✨ A sensational educational and developmental opportunity below, right here in Christchurch, from .whetu Waitaha

Female Athlete Health Half-Day Conference
📆 Sunday 9 August
⌚ 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
📍 The Commodore Hotel, Burnside (near Christchurch Airport).

This conference is open to athletes, parents, coaches, and anyone wanting to learn more about female athlete health for developing athletes.

Hear from:
- Performance Psychologist Ilia Lindsay
- Dietician Jessica Mould
- Physiotherapist & Female Athlete Health Specialist Kylie Cox The Healthy Athlete Project

Together, they'll provide practical, evidence-based information and answer questions across the key areas of psychology, nutrition, physiotherapy, and female athlete health.

Scan the QR code below to register.

Last chance to register for our next Breakfast event
- Free to attend, next Tuesday 16th June, 8-9am
- 3-person panel discussing all things coaching
- Get connected, leave inspired!

RSVP here by Friday 12th June please!
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Important reading below ⬇️

When her daughter was just 3 years old, Sarah Styles, then-leader of Australia’s Office for Women in Sport, heard her say something she would never forget.

Walking to the playground after nursery, her daughter said: “I can’t go on the big swings, Mum. I’m a girl.”

Where had she got this idea from? Especially considering her mum’s job meant that she had only ever seen women play sport live and had always played dress-up in women’s sport kit.

Everything in her life up to this point had shown her that women belong in sport. But somehow even she was susceptible to society’s harmful gender stereotypes.

Why? From the moment they’re born, many girls are stereotyped away from sport and towards a life on the side-lines.

They’re told – however subtly – that they’re more fragile, less sporty and less brave than the boys their age.

So, by the time they reach primary school, they have already developed fewer skills, and by the time they’re teenagers, 4 in 10 will walk away from sport.

If we’re serious about closing the gender play gap, we must tackle the issue at its core.

Our toolkit helps parents and caregivers to challenge stereotypes, dismantle barriers and question their own subconscious bias, so that every girl knows there’s a place for her on the big swings.

Download the kit: https://womeninsport.org/resource/parents-toolkit-creating-mini-allies/

✍️ Source: Sarah Styles for Women’s Agenda

Hey team, who wants to catch some international women's cricket this Sunday at Hagley Oval? Drop us a note as we have a few double passes to give away!

White Ferns Hagley Oval

Our White Ferns are playing South Africa next Sunday at Hagley Oval.

And guess what?! Our friends at NZ Cricket have given us a couple of double passes to give away! Like this post and tag a mate you wanna bring with you (by 8pm Wednesday night) and we'll randomly select 2 followers to get along to the action next Sunday!

Our White Ferns are playing South Africa next Sunday at Hagley Oval.

And guess what?! Our friends at NZ Cricket have given us a couple of double passes to give away! Like this post and tag a mate you wanna bring with you (by 8pm Wednesday night) and we'll randomly select 2 followers to get along to the action next Sunday!

This International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating the women and girls who power sport in Waitaha — on the field, on the sideline, in leadership, officiating, coaching and all those working and volunteering across the community.

But celebration alone isn’t enough.

We need to open doors, drop ladders, and advocate for change so more women and girls can thrive in sport.

And we need men alongside us doing the same.

Progress happens when we ALL give — together.

Happy International Women’s Day from Women in Sport Waitaha.

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🥇 with 11 Paralympic gold medals shes one of our greatest ever athletes!

📆 10th March, 8am at the Elms

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