The Global Institute of Sport hosted an industry masterclass on Wednesday, 13 August, at Allianz Stadium in Sydney, focusing on “Growth and Opportunities in Women’s Sport.”
The evening began with an introduction to GIS and its programs designed to develop the next generation of sports industry leaders. The panel featured Dr Alana Thomson from the University of Newcastle, Chantella Perera, General Manager of KOJO Sport and advisory board member, and Yael Reed, a sport commercial and marketing leader.
All three guests were incredibly insightful, sharing their personal experiences in women’s sport and offering their perspectives on how the sector will continue to grow in the future, whilst also answering questions about certain vital topics involving women’s sport.
The event concluded with an open networking session, giving attendees the chance to connect with industry professionals, alumni, and students.
Ray Boggiano, Regional Director, Asia-Pacific for the Global Institute of Sport (GIS) spoke on the success of the women’s sport masterclass event and how important it is for the students.
“We had fantastic guest speakers, first of all Chantella Perera who is one of our industry advisory board members and has done a few guest speaking sessions with us so far, and we had Yael Reed who came on board through a call-to-arms looking for people to share their story and she reached out and was keen to get involved,” he said in an interview with Soccerscene.
“We have a strong network of people within sport and we’re always looking to expand that because people within sport are often looking to give back to the next generation of sports leaders and impart their knowledge, and I thought the whole event was a great success.”
Boggiano also spoke on the growth of female students within GIS and how they plan to keep moving in the right direction.
“We have a stated strategy to increase the number of women studying our programs first of all but then secondary to that is getting more women into sports careers,” he said.
“We do that through a number of different avenues, one is events and engagement opportunities like this event, another is mentoring so our industry advisory board mentor many of our students.
“Then we also have scholarships available for women in sports across all of our programs, we just launched one for our Sydney campus so lots of different initiatives but it’s definitely the aim of ours to get more women into sport.”
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