{"id":308679,"date":"2025-11-25T23:16:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/308679\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T23:16:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T23:16:14","slug":"like-a-girl-think-train-strive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/308679\/","title":{"rendered":"Like a Girl | Think. Train. Strive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>60 girls have taken part in a first-of-its kind collaboration between Boxing and Athletics in Belfast, aimed at empowering young women through sport.<\/p>\n<p>Originated and developed by IABA Ulster Participation &amp; Engagement Officer Louise McKenzie, this cross community programme included pupils in Years 8 &amp; 9 from Newry High School and St. Mary\u2019s High School, Newry<\/p>\n<p>Over four weeks, the students were given the opportunity to try new sports and build confidence while learning to be proud, and to do anything \u2018Like a Girl\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The finale event, held today in Newry Leisure Centre began with a confidence building workshop with Glow Girls by Gemma, followed by taster sessions delivered by Ulster Boxing, Athletics NI and Netball NI.<\/p>\n<p>The programme and today\u2019s finale were supported by IABA High Performance boxers, double Olympian Michaela Walsh, and Kaci Rock, alongside Athletics NI Elite athlete,  Rachel McCann.<\/p>\n<p>Sandra Gray, a coach from  from St. Monica\u2019s BC in Newry assisted IABA Ulster Female Participation coach, Lynsey McMillan in delivering a boxing session to participants.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"578\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Like-a-Girl-17-1024x578.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51816\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"60 girls have taken part in a first-of-its kind collaboration between Boxing and Athletics in Belfast, aimed at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-308679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}