Interview with Lilly Pinchin - 25 Year Old Rising Jockey Super Star

With no family background in horseracing whatsoever, Lilly started out in the North Cotswold Hunt branch of the Pony Club. Lucky to get a pony at age nine, she felt the pull - taking him racing and winning her first one. Lilly rode in her first Point-to-Point in February 2015 and scored her first win between the Flags in April 2016. From there, she had caught the bug.

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Guest blog - field hockey

Hockey is a fast-paced, exciting game that is played all over the world. Matches can be hugely entertaining to watch, full of end-to-end action! When it comes to starting out, you can usually begin playing at age 5 and keep going right up to ‘veterans’ hockey, there really is no limit. It’s for all ages and abilities, anyone can pick up a hockey stick and learn. So, if this is a first for you and you’ve never heard of hockey before or perhaps you have and would like to know more, this post will hopefully be a good starting point for you.  

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Seat at the Table

We are recruiting for our WAGIS group, ‘Seat at the Table’, a group dedicated to shaping We are Girls in Sport as it grows. Every sports club has a committee so we thought we should too and we’re inviting you to have a seat at this (virtual) table.

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Caroline Kings
Guest blog from The Sports Ethics Examiner: what's happening in women's soccer?

You might have seen in the news or on social media that women’s football is going through a rough patch … and that’s an understatement. With the women’s World Cup looming this summer, the game is in crisis. We asked our friends at The Sports Ethics Examiners to delve a little deeper to explain what’s really going on. They focus on the Canadian Women’s Team (Olympic gold medal winning team!) but there are many other cases.

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Caroline Kings
New blog! Watch our interview with golfer Betty Glyptis ...

Thirteen year old Betty Glyptis is one smart golfer. She’s funny and clever and a really good golfer.

A blog with a difference this week as it’s a vlog so you can watch it or listen to it on the go like a podcast! Listen to how Betty’s hearing impairment affects her golf - not something we’d thought of!

The first question is all about how Betty got into golf …Thanks Betty for a really fun chat.

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'We are only human' - an interview with diver Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix

‘We are only human’ – Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix, Commonwealth Games & European gold medal winning 10m platform diver, comes back to this phrase a lot … and other fantastic words of wisdom which leave me feeling inspired and motivated by the end of our chat. But there’s much more to the first woman to win a platform diving gold for England at the Commonwealth Games since 1966, than that.

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New Campaign - Play On!

Today is the International Day of the Girl and We are Girls in Sport wanted to support one of its main objectives this year:

‘Increasing resources for and investments in adolescent girls, including for the networks and organisations that support quality and inclusive education and prioritise their well-being.’

We want to increase resources for sporty girls and with this in mind, we’re super excited at We are Girls in Sport HQ as we launch PLAY ON, the campaign to make sure that sports clubs & venues provide free period wear. Yes! Free period wear! Wouldn’t that be great?!

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World Mental Health Day - COVID and mental health

COVID has impacted so many of us around the world and it continues to do so. Here, on this World Mental Health Day, rugby playing Ashleigh Rollins shares how it has impacted her mental health and how sport, and in particular, rugby, helped her. Thank you Ashleigh.

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Street League x adidas Breaking Barriers Girls Football Tournament

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.


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Winter Paralympics - ones to watch

Despite everything that is going on in the world, the Paralympic Winter Games start today 4 March. The athletes have been training for years for their moment at this tournament where they can compete against the very best in the world.

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Caroline Kings
Interview with GB winter Olympic legend, Lizzy Yarnold.

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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