Sandmeyer-Graves hopes women and girls aren’t forgotten when sports world reopens Globe_Sports
“We’re trying to draw people’s attention to it,” said Sandmeyer-Graves, the CEO of Canadian Women & Sport, so that as are making countless decisions that are going to be really shaping probably not just the near-term sport and physical activity, but frankly, also the longer-term, that they’re not forgetting about women and girls.The WNBA held its online draft on April 17, and the regular season was supposed to have started on May 17.
Sandmeyer-Graves believes gender equity is still a “high priority” for both Canada’s Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault and the Canadian Olympic Committee despite the pandemic upheaval. “You would want to know that as they’re rebuilding their sports team, because once people are moved around, there’s no guarantees that it comes back the way that it was,” Sandmeyer-Graves said. “So, as they’re rebuilding, let’s make sure that there’s diversity … we’re really encouraging people to bring that kind of intentionality to their decision-making. This isn’t necessarily how people always tend to think, we’re trying to be that voice to encourage it.
“Just because you’re a Para athlete doesn’t mean you’re at high risk of acquiring COVID-19,” she said. “In a team sport that has a variety of disabilities within the same group, yes, it’s a group, yes, it’s a basketball team, but among that team the risk assessment could be different from player to player.
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