Register for our annual 2023 5K Family Fun Run taking place on May 21st in Golden Gate Park here.

All ages and genders welcome!

 

A Big Thanks to Our Corporate Supporters

 

Why Support Girls Leading Goals?

A picture banner of pictures from last years 5K

Girls Leading Goals is on a mission to train girls to be leaders through soccer.

We are the first-ever all-girls soccer organization with all women coaches. In 2021, we trained 736 young women ages 5-17 in leadership and life skills. Our programs run year-round, locally, and internationally. 

Our unique approach combines all female role models as coaches with a girl-centered curriculum incorporating nutrition, body image, career exploration, goal setting, healthy relationships, and soccer training to increase girls’ confidence on and off the field.

We use the term “girls,” which refers to gender expansive youth: cis girls, trans girls, nonbinary youth, gender nonconforming youth, genderqueer youth, and any girl-identified youth.

Girls Deserve Equal Access to Sports

Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, a civil rights law signed into law by President Richard Nixon, protects people from discrimination based on sex in education and sports programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance. 

Title IX has been impactful across institutions, especially in women’s sports.

In a four-year period, North Carolina State increased its women's sports budget by 15 times.  - BestColleges.com
Today, women make up 44% of all NCAA student-athletes.  BestColleges.com
The University of Michigan, which had no intercollegiate teams in 1973, had 10 by the end of the decade.  - BestColleges.com
The 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro saw the largest contingent of U.S. female Olympians in history, with a total of 292 women and 263 men. History.com
In 1972, 2 percent of school athletic budgets went towards female participants. In 2010, 40 percent of academic athletic budgets were dedicated to women. OnlineMasters.Ohio.edu
By 2012, the 40th anniversary of Title IX’s passage, the number of girls participating in high school sports nationwide had risen tenfold, to more than 3 million. History.com