After seven years of hosting free soccer camps for kids, Burnaby RCMP decided to have one just for girls this year – and they're loving it.
When Burnaby RCMP Insp. Peri Mainwaring went to check how the detachment's first all-girls soccer camp was going this week, she said she was wiped because she'd had a busy weekend."It was amazing. I was so inspired," she told the Burnaby NOW.
"They were all playing; nobody was standing on the field looking lost," Mainwaring said. "There's some really good players, some that obviously play on a team and others that don't, but they were all playing and respectful of each other and including each other, which I thought was kind of cool."Charlotte Wright, 11, said she attended one of the co-ed RCMP camps in 2022 and was the only girl in her group.
Launched by Const. Kwame Amoateng in 2017 as a way for police officers to connect with local youth in a positive way, the RCMP soccer camps focus mostly on soccer skills and teamwork but also include special presentations from emergency services, including the Burnaby Fire Department, Lower Mainland Integrated Emergency Response Team and Lower Mainland Integrated Police Dog Service .And Mainwaring herself raised eyebrows when she took to the field in her RCMP uniform to play.
The all-girls camp is just the latest in Burnaby RCMP's efforts to keep making them better every year.
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