Women in Coaching & Leadership Roles Series!, News, U13 A #4472, Rep (Guelph Girls Hockey Association)

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Women in Coaching & Leadership Roles Series!
The GGHA along with Hockey Canada recognizes the advantages that exist to having women in coaching and leadership positions and the importance of young players seeing women behind the bench. During the end of the 2023-2024 season, the GGHA partnered with 519SportsOnline to showcase some of the amazing female leaders within the Guelph Girls Hockey community!

Women in leadership positions have strong communication, team-building and multi-tasking skills, as well as high emotional intelligence. They also demonstrate that sport is a safe and acceptable activity for girls. Women in coaching positions support and sustain the participation of girls and women in hockey in Canada and the benefits that girls receive by playing hockey cannot be underestimated:

  • Hockey helps girls develop the core skills required for a healthy and successful life.

  • Girls who play sports are also more likely to develop a positive self-image and experience overall improvements in their health and well-being.

  • Girls involved in sports see better academic outcomes than those who are not, and 94% of women who hold C-suite positions participated in sports in their youth.

  • A strong work ethic, an appetite for collaboration and the ability to maintain perseverance are all results of participation in sports.

Source: Female Hockey Coaching

Did you know that according to Hockey Canada, only 5% of women are in leadership positions and only 17% within the OWHA? Guelph Girls Hockey saw that 30% of leadership roles were female during the 2023-2024 season!

519SportsOnline has given us the opportunity to share personal experiences and outlooks on the growing female presence behind the bench within our organization in a video series!


·   Click the names below to watch each video installment of our females in leadership roles series, where members and coaches are interviewed about their personal journey and visions for the future!

Michelle Watterson
Caroline Ross
Maja DeForest & June McCormick
Janet Gibson
Caitlin Kroetsch & Kendra Pitts
Jaime Magoffin & Chihiro Suzuki
Sinead Daumas
Zee O'Neil
Sandra Payne
Katie Mora

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