Caribbean Women Sports (CWS) and Bmo­bile have part­nered to em­pow­er, in­spire and build com­mu­ni­ty among women in sports in T&T.

CWS, the pre­mier me­dia com­pa­ny for women’s sports cov­er­age, will host its in­au­gur­al Women in Sports Day on No­vem­ber 9 at the Diego Mar­tin Sport­ing Com­plex.

The event will fea­ture some of T&T’s top na­tion­al ath­letes in­clud­ing the likes of na­tion­al foot­baller Vic­to­ria Swift, cur­rent West In­dies Women off-spin­ner Kar­ish­ma Ramharack, for­mer WI play­ers Anisa Mo­hammed and Brit­ney Coop­er, T&T and pro­fes­sion­al vol­ley­baller, Krys­tle Es­delle, T&T and pro­fes­sion­al net­baller, Kali­fa Mc­Collin, T&T rug­by play­er and vice-pres­i­dent of the T&T Rug­by Union, Kan­isha Vin­cent and oth­er stand out ath­letes.

CWS’ Sports Day is your typ­i­cal sports day fea­tur­ing fun events like tug-of-war, re­lays, ob­sta­cle cours­es, sack races etc. What makes the event unique, how­ev­er, is that the four com­pet­ing teams will com­prise eight na­tion­al ath­letes and two sec­ondary school ath­letes each. Ad­di­tion­al­ly, each team will be pre-as­signed a women’s sports project, with a grant go­ing to the re­spec­tive project of the win­ning team.

Found­ed by Shari John to pro­vide me­dia and mar­ket­ing sup­port for women in sports who of­ten re­ceive less cov­er­age than their male coun­ter­parts, the sports day is in­tend­ed to in­spire and cre­ate net­work­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties for ath­letes.

Speak­ing on the event, John ex­plained that quite of­ten while en­gag­ing na­tion­al ath­letes she has found that those in a par­tic­u­lar sport will be un­aware of stand­out ath­letes in oth­ers. How­ev­er, she be­lieves that it is im­por­tant that women in sports sup­port each oth­er first and fore­most on the path to in­creas­ing vis­i­bil­i­ty and sup­port for them­selves.

“I have al­ways found it a bit un­for­tu­nate that top ath­letes in one sport, would be com­plete­ly un­aware of their coun­ter­parts in oth­ers. The sports day is meant to bridge that gap and bring every­one to­geth­er to com­pete and have fun, in a non-sport spe­cif­ic en­vi­ron­ment geared to­wards cre­at­ing new friend­ships,” said John.

The teams will be mixed so that there is rarely a case of ath­letes from the same sport be­ing on a team to­geth­er.

Speak­ing on be­half of bmo­bile, Kashif Greaves, As­sis­tant Vice Pres­i­dent - Con­sumer Sales, shared that the com­pa­ny was par­tic­u­lar­ly ex­cit­ed about the con­cept and jumped on board im­me­di­ate­ly.

“At Bmo­bile, we were ea­ger to part­ner on this event be­cause we saw it as an op­por­tu­ni­ty to con­tribute to the em­pow­er­ment of women and girls across T&T who as­pire to be ath­letes at any lev­el while cel­e­brat­ing those who have achieved so much for the coun­try,” said Greaves. “It is al­so per­fect­ly aligned with our com­mit­ment to youth and sport and we are hap­py to be a part of it.”

He said not on­ly do women in sports de­serve to be cel­e­brat­ed for their hard work but their sto­ries have the po­ten­tial to in­spire many oth­ers.

“We hope that through our sup­port, we can help to cre­ate even greater vis­i­bil­i­ty for these amaz­ing ath­letes and their sport,” said Greaves. “We urge every­one to come down to the event, meet the ath­letes and be part of cre­at­ing com­mu­ni­ty among our women in sport.”

Oth­er spon­sors of the event in­clude NL­CB, Avelle Brand­ing Com­pa­ny, Carib, UDE­COTT and Self Au­thored Me­dia.

The event be­gins at 9 am with a meet and greet, so that as­pir­ing ath­letes have an op­por­tu­ni­ty to in­ter­act with their sport­ing he­roes. The ac­tu­al events will then com­mence at 10 am. For more in­for­ma­tion on full teams and ath­lete fea­tures lead­ing up to the event, fol­low Caribbean Women Sports on Face­book and In­sta­gram @cwom­en­sports.