Victorian Sport Awards

Sport North East’s Learn Support Lead: activating female leaders in sport program has been named as a finalist in the Victorian Sport Awards. It has been nominated in the VicHealth Victorian Sport Development Initiative of the Year category. This award recognises outstanding community sporting initiatives that have been delivered successfully and benefited the local community.

Learn Support Lead is a leadership program designed to activate the untapped skills and experience of local women in north east Victoria. Initiated in 2017, the 12 month program brings together established and emerging female sporting club leaders with local leadership experts for monthly leadership workshops.

The mentor-mentee relationship between the established and emerging leaders has created a strong, supportive and growing network of female leaders across the region to share experiences, knowledge and ideas. Women representing 29 sporting clubs across 12 sports have participated in the program so far.

Winners will be announced on Wednesday, 20 February 2019.