Active Girls
Active participation in sport and recreation provides the chance to have social contact with friends and to make new ones. It strengthens the confidence of young women in their ability to tackle challenges and enhances self-esteem.
2008 Active Girls Breakfast
The biggest ever Active Girls Breakfast took place on Thursday 5 June at the Melbourne Convention Centre, attracting 1100 people from across 76 metropolitan secondary schools.
The Minister for Sport, Recreation and Youth Affairs, James Merlino, was joined by a team of inspiring female role models, including former Olympian, Brooke Hanson and the very popular Michelle Bridges, host of TV’s The Biggest Loser.
Mr Merlino said the Breakfast demonstrated how active participation and eating nutritional food helped to maintain a healthy lifestyle, as well as providing an opportunity to make new friends.
“The event has been designed to enhance the self-esteem of young women and encourage a positive body image, which was the theme of this year’s Breakfast,” Mr Merlino said. “It also provides a forum to recognise the sporting achievements of teenage girls, while giving them an opportunity to meet and learn from elite female athletes and role models.”
During the two hour event, a role model was seated at every table to answer questions and pass on first hand experiences and encouragement to the girls about how to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
The Wesley Lions Cheerleaders and Mighty Foxy Babes provided entertainment during the Breakfast, in addition to a line-up of motivational guest speakers including Lisa Hasker from the Victorian Institute of Sport, sixteen year-old cricketer Meg Lanning, wheelchair basketball Paralympian Leanne Del Toso and Julie Thomson from The Butterfly Foundation.Mr Merlino said the Breakfast is a Victorian Government initiative aimed at curbing the prevalence of obesity in adolescents, which has jumped markedly in all age groups over the past few decades. “The Breakfast supports our Go for your life campaign to get more people to participate in sport and recreation and turn the tide against this looming epidemic,” Mr Merlino said.
In addition to the Melbourne Breakfast, events were hosted in Stawell, Dimboola, Donald, Swan Hill, Mildura, Foster, Wangaratta and Warrnambool.
2007 Active Girls Breakfast
With nearly 1000 students, 90 role models, two circus performers and lots of bongo drums, the 2007 Active Girls Breakfast was an amazing and inspiring experience for everyone involved.
Active Girls Awards
Young women who are attaining high levels of performance in their chosen sport are recognised through their nomination as a weekly Sports Star in their local Leader Newspaper.
In partnership with Leader community newspapers, Sport and Recreation Victoria recognises and rewards the sporting achievements of young women in the community through the Active Girls Awards.
The aim of the Awards is to highlight the achievements of these young women and encourage other young women to participate in sport and recreation. Each year, nine young women from across the state are presented with an Active Girls Award as part of the annual Leader community newspapers Sports Star award night.
View the names and sports of previous winners (Word 21kb)
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