Su­san Joseph-War­rick has re­placed Sharon O'Brien as the new Pres­i­dent of Women's League Foot­ball (WOLF).

War­rick was vot­ed in as pres­i­dent at the or­ga­ni­za­tion's An­nu­al Gen­er­al Meet­ing (AGM) held on April 25 at the Me­dia Cen­tre of the Home of Foot­ball in Bal­main Cou­va.

She will be sup­port­ed by Ken­rick Hoyte (Vice Pres­i­dent), Chris­tine Eliz­a­beth Ann Rose ( Trea­sur­er), Na­dia James (As­sis­tant Sec­re­tary Op­er­a­tions), Annleyes Col­lette (As­sis­tant Sec­re­tary Ad­min­is­tra­tion), Claire George (As­sis­tant Sec­re­tary Com­pe­ti­tion), Arnold Mur­phy and Mo­han Per­sad (Or­di­nary Mem­bers), Shari John (PRO) and Jam­ilya Mo­hammed (Gen­er­al Sec­re­tary).

A for­mer Man­ag­er in the Ho­tel and En­ter­tain­ment in­dus­tries, War­rick is the par­ent of na­tion­al play­ers, Shanelle and Jonelle War­rick Cato, and has been in­volved in women's foot­ball since 2001, as part own­er of the Trinci­ty Na­tion­al's Foot­ball Club, which in­cludes the Trinci­ty Na­tion­als Women's team. She has served as vice pres­i­dent of WoLF for the past two years.

Look­ing ahead to the next two, War­rick ex­pressed her de­sire to build on the foun­da­tion left by O'Brien while al­so fo­cus­ing on the de­vel­op­ment of the women's game at all lev­els. She al­so hopes to get rel­e­vant stake­hold­ers more in­volved in the or­ga­ni­za­tion as she aims for greater trans­paren­cy, ac­count­abil­i­ty and co-op­er­a­tion mov­ing for­ward.

“There is a gen­er­al mis­con­cep­tion that WoLF is just about a foot­ball league, but it is ac­tu­al­ly the body re­spon­si­ble for the de­vel­op­ment of the women's game,” said War­rick. “We would like to get back to what we be­lieve is im­por­tant to de­vel­op the right skills in our play­ers from a young age, both on and off the field, while al­so help­ing to equip coach­es and ad­min­is­tra­tors with the tools nec­es­sary to do this.”

And while be­ing cog­nizant of the chal­lenges fac­ing the or­ga­ni­za­tion, par­tic­u­lar­ly fi­nan­cial, her goal is to build the WoLF brand in or­der to make it more at­trac­tive to cor­po­rate spon­sors.

“Women's foot­ball has tremen­dous po­ten­tial for growth. Glob­al­ly, it is one of the lead­ing sports for women, but we have not been able to cap­i­tal­ize on this as a coun­try and aid our young women in tak­ing ad­van­tage of the many op­por­tu­ni­ties avail­able to them. We hope to do our part to change this.”

War­rick said she is hop­ing to get much-need­ed sup­port due to WoLF from the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion and hopes that all stake­hold­ers can come to­geth­er to strength­en women's foot­ball in T&T.