Diana ‘Di’ Clarke, a stalwart in equestrian, is the recipient of the Barbados Olympic Association’s Gender Equality Commission’s 2025 Esther Maynard Icon Award. Nominated by the Barbados Equestrian Association, Clarke was recognised alongside fellow nominees Monica Cumberbatch, who the Barbados…
The Barbados Olympic Association (BOA) invites interested individuals to apply for the Women’s Sport Leadership Academy (WSLA) programme, scheduled for later this year. The transformative, week-long residential programme developed by the United Kingdom-based University of Chichester and delivered in partnership…
Barbadian female sports leaders, who are interested in becoming strong role models and catalysts for change to mentor the next generation of women in sport, are encouraged to apply for the 2024-25 Commonwealth Women’s Leadership Programme (CWLP). The Commonwealth Sport…
Hockey stalwart Andrea Nichols is the recipient of the 2024 Esther Maynard Icon Award from the Barbados Olympic Association Inc. (BOA), becoming the fifth person to be honoured. Nichols received the prestigious award, which recognises excellence and the outstanding contributions…
Retired physical education teacher June Ruder is the 2023 recipient of the Esther Maynard Icon Award, which recognises Barbadian women’s outstanding achievements and excellence in sport, along with their contribution to promoting the advancement of women in sport. The announcement was…
Central American and Caribbean Games medallist, boxer Kimberly Gittens, has been awarded a Commonwealth Sport Women’s Leadership Programme Scholarship. Gittens will be one of 25 emerging female leaders in sport from the Commonwealth pursuing the programme this year. She was…
Whoever said that small does not matter; that people from small islands of the Caribbean cannot hold lofty aspirations and achieve them? Dreams do come true! Wednesday 21 July 2021, would forever be a ‘red letter’ day for the Caribbean…
Regionally renowned sports administrator, Kathy Harper Hall is the 2021 recipient of The Barbados Olympic Association Inc.’s (BOA) Women in Sport Icon of the Year Award. Harper-Hall received the award at a virtual ceremony held on Sunday in which tributes…
