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Womensport & Recreation Tasmania Inc. (WSRT) is a dynamic group dedicated to improving opportunities in sport and regular physical activity for women and girls.
It is Womensport & Recreation Tasmania's mission to promote, encourage, support, inspire and celebrate regular physical activity for women and girls and to provide a representative voice influencing effective public policy in Tasmania.
Women in Sport Coaching Scholarship
The Women in Sport Coaching Scholarship (WCS) is a partnership between Womensport & Recreation Tasmania Inc. (WSRT) and Tasmanian Institute of Sport (TIS) aimed at providing quality coaching and learning opportunities to women and increasing the number of female coaches in Tasmania.
The WCS will target individuals who might not otherwise be able to access high quality coach education and development opportunities through financial constraints or who are from rural communities.
The WCS provides not just financial but also mentoring support to the successful applicant by providing them with the opportunity to gain valuable national experience whilst expanding their knowledge and skills through hands-on coaching, education and development opportunities.
For more information on the 2023-24 scholarship click here
2022-23 Women in Sport Coaching Scholarship Recipients
Congratulations to Devonport's Philippa Martin, Launceston’s Elizabeth Gray, and Hobart's Sarah McCambridgeon on being the successful recipients for 2022-23.
Philippa Martin
Tennis
Elizabeth Gray
Athletics
(Middle Distance & Sprints)
Sarah McCambridge
Hockey
For more information visit the TIS Coaching Centre by clicking here
Girls in Action Sports Project (GASP)
August 2021
The GASP was designed to better understand the enablers and barriers for girls in three male-dominated action sports – mountain biking, skateboarding and surfing. It builds on from a 2018-19 project, an interview study with Tasmanian girls engaged in any of the three aforementioned action sports. Girls are less physically active than boys (a pattern that continues across the life-course) so finding ways to engage, re-engage and retain girls’ engagement in physical activity is important for individual and societal level benefit.
The GASP captured the perspectives of young people who used to, wanted to or were participating in either mountain biking, skateboarding or surfing; parents/carers of young action sport participants or enthusiasts; and adults who had administrative, coaching or officiating/event coordinating roles in any of these three sports.
