Are you looking for an opportunity to really make a difference in the lives of the next generation of young girls right in your own community? Volunteering to coach Girls on the Run is just the opportunity you have been looking for! You don’t need to be a runner or have any prior coaching experience: we provide coach training, and you bring the desire to inspire the next generation of young girls.
We have the vision, but we need your help to make it happen!
Through the GOTR program WE INSPIRE GIRLS to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum, which creatively integrates running. Volunteer coaches meet twice a week for 10 weeks with 3rd-5th or 6-8th grade girls, to encourage them to create lives that reach their full potential. Discussing difficult topics such as bullying, body image, and peer pressure helps the girls form strong bonds of trust and friendship with their coaches and their team members.
Through running games and goal setting, the girls increase their endurance to participate in a special 5K event at the close of the season. For many it is a real lesson in challenging themselves, and accomplishing goals with hard work and perseverance-all good life lessons.
Volunteer coaches help make this a reality!
There are Girls on the Run of Central New Jersey sites throughout Middlesex, Monmouth, Somerset, Ocean and Camden counties, with sites at many schools, recreation centers, and parks.
The spring season begins the week of April 3, with culminating 5K races in
Fair Haven on June 4 and Somerville on June 11.
Registration and site information can be found at http://www.gotrcnj.org
Contact Donna York, at donna.york@girlsontherun.org or 908-285-9202 for further information.
