GRiT stands for Girls Riding Together
The PCHS & Junior Development Mountain Bike Team is recruiting girls in grades 7-12 who want to bike, race, and have lots of fun together! We’re also recruiting female coaches to join the team, and are encouraging all moms, older sisters, and grandmas to consider joining as a coach. All abilities welcome to join, from beginner to advanced. We have lots of fun activities planned for the 2022 season. We will finalize activities, dates, and times soon! Some activities include
- Tour de Smoothies
- Camping at Lake Jordanelle
- Moms and Daughters Ride
- Tutu & poster night
- Ice cream sundae fun day
Currently, girls represent 20% of NICA’s overall national student-athlete participation. The PCHS MTB team has 27% girls, and we have excellent female coaches.
NiCA’s GOALS
HAVE FUN
Activities are focused on increasing girls awareness of NICA programs by offering girls-only social and riding opportunities for girls, moms, friends, siblings and female coaches. GRiT Camps and GRiT student-athlete Ambassador programs are available in some leagues as well!
BE EMPOWERED
GRiT recognizes the need to get more girls on bikes. GRiT’s goal is to empower female student-athlete’s to make their mark, on or off the bike. All NICA leagues have an individual GRiT Coordinator to implement programming from the NICA GRiT Tool box and events at the league level.
EQUITY
Girls Riding Together is NICA’s initiative to increase female participation to 33% overall by 2023.
COMMUNITY
NICA is making a concentrated effort to increase the number of girls and female coaches in NICA programs by focusing on creating a more welcoming environment for girls to join through girls-only events, rides, camps, clinics and socializing opportunities
What is it like being on the team for Girls? Take a look at one of our fun events the “Tour De Smoothies” just for our girl riders, arranged by our team Grit Mentor.
More information on the Utah NICA GRiT program visit: www.utahmtb.org/grit
