The womens hockey team not seen, basketball no slick moves, as noted above – womens ball not even in the park. Golf, tennis, race car driving, diving, track and field, basketball, hockey… you name it, not one women shown in her glory.

Singular or team it should not be hard to find a defining moment, a show of talent, the pleasure of winning and the agony of defeat in this years wrap up.

No excuses here, girls are participating in sports as I did in my youth and young adulthood. I have known many women in sports and the daughters of friends and family who were quite accomplished, resulting in even scholarships. You just don’t hear about it as much.

Watch the sports broadcasts and count over the coming months how many times you see women’s sports mentioned it will be few in comparison, don’t blink though the moment might be gone. Why? Under funded, not recognized as big advertising draws and frankly probably hard for some people to buy into.

Role models are out there and we should care that they are not being featured and if anything we should care that our Olympic hopefuls have to fight so hard to be noticed all year round.

By the way readers, the womens hockey team beat USA 3-2 this past Friday in front of the largest Canadian crowd to watch womens hockey. Probably were some good highlights there.

Very often, I have found, that women instead, choose to participate in more singular pursuits. Some examples of these are track and field, (i.e.Paula Radcliffe, Dame Kelly Holmes)…
Tennis, (Serena Williams, Little Mo, Maureen Connolly…oops showing my age there!), too many international gymnasts to name.

Or in very recent times…Lone women round the world, yachtswomen, such as Ellen McArthur.
Many. many famous ice skaters have made it to the top. Katerina Witt, Jayne Torville, Michele Kwan and many, many modern Russians, Chinese, Canadian and Japanese skaters.

Are women more single minded and independent when it comes to sports participation?
Is it that sport is not high on the agenda, or not encouraged in high schools?
Possibly parental encouragement, or lack of it.
Personally, if I was going to venture onto the ice and attempt to do a double axel, I would appreciate a tall strong Christopher Dean to hang onto when I landed!

Sports was never something that attracted me too much, when I was growing up, although my Mother insisted on me learning tennis…UGH…Sports! You might get sweaty and someone might take a photo of you in that state!