Rowing Ireland are committed to the 20x20 campaign
which is an all-inclusive movement to shift Ireland’s cultural perception of
women’s sport by 2020 with:
• a 20% increase in media coverage of women in sport
• a 20% increase in female participation at all levels of sport
• a 20% increase in attendance at women’s games and events
Rowing Ireland pledge to continue to:
· To
give opportunities and support to girls in sport.
· We
will continue to insure equality between our male and female athletes.
· Give
greater visibility to our female athletes
We currently have a number of hugely successful
Women in Sport Initiatives underway. Get Going..Get Rowing was originally
started as a Women in Sport Campaign to increase participation numbers amongst
Primary and Secondary School Girls. This programmes has exploded with tremendous
success and this year we aim to have 35,000 students take part. As part of the
programme students are given the opportunity to take part in a #Blitzit event
to showcase their hard work and dedication to the programme.
We also work closely with clubs and sports
partnerships to insure every opportunity is there to increase participation
levels amongst girls and women. We work together with sports partnerships to
deliver Women’s Indoor Rowing Programmes and we have helped clubs to run social
rowing for women to begin to engage in the sport. Through initiatives such as
these our 100+ clubs have been able to grow the number of women at club level
both competitive and non-competitive members and most clubs have a 50/50 split
of men and women competing and on committees.
Rowing Ireland have over 12 Senior High Performance
Female Athletes in training for International, World and Olympic success. This
is a staggering number of female athletes to have at the highest level of the
sport and a true manifestation of the hard work all at Rowing Ireland have put
in to increase the numbers of women in the sport at all levels. At the
forefront of our High Performance Team is Sanita Puspure, a shining example of
how hard work and dedication will accomplish all of your dreams as long as you
are consistent, persistent and most importantly dominant. She is an outstanding
idol for girls and woman of all ages to look up to and we are so proud of all
that she has achieved. A mother, a wife, a daughter, a student and an
athlete -a true inspiration.
This International Women’s Day (Friday March 8th)
20x20 will be asking Irish clubs to #ShowYourStripes and pledge one action to
grow girls and women in sport.
