Great work locally to build involvement for women in sport.
Former national soccer player aims to break the ‘grass ceiling’ for girls
Carrie Serwetnyk scores with her scheme to get girls into the game
Serwetnyk’s Equal Play Girls Soccer Leadership Program is one session a week for seven weeks, and is themed around the World Cup, with girls from Grades 4 to 7 setting up their own mini tournament.
The program is held in schools at lunchtimes so that any girl who wants to can participate, and there’s no cost either to the school or the parents.
Money to support the program comes from the sale of a pendant (available at equalplayfc.com), which was designed by Corrine Hunt, co-creator of the 2010 Olympic medal. The pendant has a soccer ball on one side and an eagle on the other.
“I chose the eagle because I imagine the kind of freedom it has, and the kind of freedom girls have through soccer,” says Hunt.
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