{"id":7081,"date":"2018-01-26T23:20:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T23:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/temp.sistersnsport.com\/?p=7081"},"modified":"2020-04-07T07:03:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T07:03:40","slug":"girls-confidence-in-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sistersnsport.com\/coaching\/2018\/01\/26\/girls-confidence-in-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Girls the Confidence to Love and Enjoy Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>\u2018<\/strong><strong>Getting Girls to the Starting Line<\/strong><strong>\u2019<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Giving Girls the Confidence to Love and Enjoy Sport<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In 2014, Helen Fraser of the GDST gave a speech on the importance of sport within education.\u00a0 It highlighted the value of sport for all girls and the positive impact on their learning, their health and their future success &#8211; through the confidence they build by playing.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u2018one of the barriers to women progressing in the workplace isn\u2019t that they don\u2019t win the race, it\u2019s that they don\u2019t even make it to the starting line as they lack the confidence and courage to compete.\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fraser highlights the life skills of sport participation &#8211; \u2018taking your team to a fixture, captaining it, building the strategy, enjoying victory, facing defeat \u2013 these are building life skills.\u2019 &#8211; and \u2018EY has linked women in senior management positions to experience with sports, finding that 96 percent of the highest ranking female executives played\u2019.\u00a0 And it is not due to the fact girls don\u2019t want to play &#8211; according to the WSFF &#8211; 76% of the 15 yr old girls surveyed wanted to take part in more physical activity &#8211; when only 31% of girls were actually taking part.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Why are girls not getting to the starting line?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>I wasn<\/strong><strong>\u2019<\/strong><strong>t a <\/strong><strong>\u2018<\/strong><strong>Sporty<\/strong><strong>\u2019<\/strong> <strong>girl<\/strong><strong>\u2026<\/strong><strong>..<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For many &#8211; sport start at school and of course &#8211; we prefer to spend time doing the things we are good at.\u00a0 This is where a relationship with sport can begin &#8211; or subsequently end very quickly!<\/p>\n<p>Girls want choice &#8211; some will want to be in the A team, represent their county and so on &#8211; and then the majority who want sport to be about \u2019having fun, being with friends and enjoying sport\u2019\u00a0 Lauren Laverne\u2019s recent blog post \u201cWhy women need to start calling themselves \u2018sporty\u2019 \u201d discusses why women need to reclaim sport for themselves &#8211; take from it what they want and need.\u00a0 After all &#8211; Laverne puts it perfectly &#8211; \u2018Sport does not belong to fit people any more than karaoke belongs to those who can actually sing.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>More and more schools are arranging fixtures for A,B, C and D teams to offer the opportunity to all girls to compete and participate in team sport &#8211; a great foundation of leadership, team building and dealing with criticism, improving with feedback and importantly dealing with losing.\u00a0 There are also more and more opportunities for girls to play socially at clubs.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>What opportunities are there for girls in team sports?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018<\/strong><strong>You go shopping whilst I<\/strong><strong>\u2019<\/strong><strong>m at the game<\/strong><strong>\u2026<\/strong><strong>..<\/strong><strong>\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We have all seen the various adverts &#8211; groups of men watching sport and celebrating, playing sport and celebrating &#8211; groups of women shopping, drinking coffee or cocktails &#8211; where are the images of women enjoying team sport &#8211; not of them running for the perfect \u2018beach body\u2019?<\/p>\n<p>According to WSFF \u201957% of girls are active because their friends are\u2019 &#8211; girls are more influenced by their friends than boys.\u00a0 Through Sport England\u2019s This Girl Can campaign &#8211; there have been more positive images for the girls and England Netball\u2019s very successful Back to Netball campaign has seen thousands of women put on a netball bib and take to the court with their friends.\u00a0 Girls are inspired and influenced by their own Mum &#8211; \u2018mums are a powerful source of encouragement for participation in sport for younger girls\u2019 WSFF with 35% saying they are active because their Mum is active.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong><strong>To be a woman is to be fearless<\/strong><strong>\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the things that competitive sport teaches girls is a certain type of fearlessness, one that is a vital component of leadership.\u00a0 Sport teaches you to be strong, to face difficulty, to dig deep when things aren\u2019t going your way and to work hard towards a goal &#8211; but they don\u2019t feel like lessons as you are playing a sport you love.\u00a0 Girls can not only gain so much from sport &#8211; they can bring so much to the game too.<\/p>\n<p>It is time for girls to \u2018enjoy\u2019 sport, to want to put on they kit, get on the court with their friends, play hard and have fun &#8211; to reclaim sport for women after all #thisgirlcan do anything AND everything!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Sisters n Sport are inspiring a generation of \u2018Super Sporty Sisters\u2019 to love sport and be fearless with their friends in enjoying it.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Come and join one of our sessions &#8211; available for all abilities from 4 years old through to 16 years 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