How Can You Help Keep Her in the Game?
Since Billie Jean King launched the Women’s Sports Foundation in 1974, we have gained great insight to both the benefits and the barriers in getting girls active. Our research has helped us show that girls who are physically active are more likely to be healthy and confident – and less likely to participate in unhealthy behaviors including smoking, drug use, gang participation, even delinquency and truancy. Girls also perform better academically when they are physically active than when they are sedentary.
Bottom line: sports help girls in all aspects of their lives, which is why it’s so important to keep every girl in the game.
Parents, Grandparents, Coaches and Teachers: What Can You Do? These resources will provide you, an important person in a girls’ life, with the pertinent information to keep your girls in the game.
Mythbusting: What Every Female Athlete Should Know
Get the facts about the rights of female athletes, their interest in sports and why it's a great idea to play.
GoGirlGo! Parents’ Guide
This Parents’ Guide from our award-winning GoGirlGo! curriculum provides insight into the latest knowledge about motivating your daughter to become active and creating a positive and supportive environment for girls. There are also some ideas on how to communicate better with your daughter, build her self-esteem and help her to make confident decisions.
Tips for Getting and Keeping Her Active
What happens when a girl is resistant to getting active? These tips will provide you with information to get girls to be physically active and help guide them to a healthier lifestyle.
WSF 40 for 40 Honorees List
Our list of 40 women who have made a significant impact on society after playing high school or college sports. Share this list with your girl so she can see just what can be achieved by sports-playing girls.
Girls’ Sports Reading List
Resource list dedicated to books featuring strong, confident female athlete “she-roes.” Share this with your girls to show her what positive role models can look like.
Support Our Work - Make a Donation
Make a gift to the Women's Sports Foundation to help advance the lives of girls and women through sports and physical activity.