Jackie Brown Women in Freestyle Bursary presented by Freestyle Canada
With the support of Sport Canada and Freestyle Canada over the past year alone, our efforts to increase the number of women in mentor and leadership roles has increased by 18% just in the past year with 14 new mentors across 6 provinces and in addition, 12 coaches have obtained a higher level of education and are currently all working within their local programs. Equally important, over the past 3 years we have seen over 15 Girlstylerz events touching approximately 100 different girls on skis all thanks to the energy of our member clubs and Provincial Freestyle Ski Associations, this is IMPACT!
This bursary program is to encourage women to work towards higher levels of education and / or experience in coaching and officiating and in turn, support the development of their local programs. With majority of our current programming involving boys and men, we would like to encourage more participation from women and girls and increase the number of women progressing through to the National Team. We envision this initiative to help our programs put more women in the faces of our communities supporting athletes’ dreams of being the best they can be and showing younger girls that now that you can SEE IT, strive to BE IT!
Multiple cross-sport studies have shown that by increasing the number of accomplished, experienced, positive, strong role models we can stimulate women & girls participation, increase positive experiences in sport for EVERYONE and improve overall program sustainability.
More information on why we need to be more strategic on how we run our Freestyle Programs, and some support on what we can do: https://womenandsport.ca/rally-2024/
Click Here for the criteria of the bursary.
ABOUT JACKIE BROWN
Freestyle Canada has named the Women in Freestyle Bursary in honour of Jaqueline Brown. Sadly, we lost Jackie in 2021 to a long and valiant fight against cancer. “Downtown Jackie Brown” was a former National Mogul Team athlete and Provincial level coach who garnered all the characteristics of Freestyle Canada’s Values and what we see important to the success of our programs.
As a National Team athlete Jackie was a force in our Women’s Mogul Program. Her diligent work ethic and compelling attitude reaped resilience to overcome any hardships and pursue success. She was a model athlete and absolutely adored by all her teammates and coaches.
Jackie coached in our mogul system for many years where she had a calculated approach to encouraging young freestyle skiers and ensured a creative and encouraging space for all people around her. She took coaching seriously, as a career and was a strong example of professionalism for leaders in all our programs.
As the empowering leader she was, we honor her with this Bursary.
More on Jackie’s life and induction into the City of Cambridge Sports Hall of Fame http://cambridgeshf.com/inductee/jacqueline-brown/
