Feb. 11, 2025 – The Horse Racing Girls’s Summit is thrilled to announce its evolution into the Horse Racing Girls’s Affiliation (HRWA). Greater than a easy title change, this transition marks a major shift from being an annual occasion to a year-round affiliation devoted to empowering girls within the horse racing business.
With a mission to have interaction, elevate, and spend money on the ladies of horse racing, the HRWA goals to create a vibrant group that can in the end remodel the game by means of a collective effort amongst the ladies who work throughout all features of the business.
“We launched 4 years in the past aspiring to be both a one-time or once-a-year Summit,” stated HRWA Chairwoman Stephanie Hronis. “The notable curiosity from the ladies in our sport searching for alternatives to community, study, and be impressed, led our dynamic committee members to reply the decision, recognizing that we’re an official and arranged group. We have fun our title edit that displays our enlargement and influence.”
Since internet hosting the inaugural Summit in 2022, the HRWA has acknowledged a rising demand for extra occasions and a broader presence nationwide. In response, the affiliation expanded its attain in 2023 and 2024, organizing extra gatherings in New York, Kentucky, and Florida, alongside ongoing actions in California. Notably, the HRWA launched a membership program in 2023 that invests in our Pay It Ahead program, scholarships, occasions, and extra.
“As demand for year-round connectivity elevated, we shortly outgrew the definition of a ‘summit,’” stated Shona Rotondo, Chair of the Advertising and marketing and Communications Committee. “As an affiliation, we now have the flexibleness to host girls (and males) in quite a lot of codecs each in particular person and on-line. Our purpose is to make our group as accessible as doable for anybody and everybody who needs to contribute to the mission.”
The HRWA is ready to create these significant skilled growth and networking alternatives annually due to the help of our sponsors, all of which share a collective purpose of constructing a constructive influence throughout the business.
One of many first member-funded assets is our Mentorship Information, developed in collaboration with Amplify Horse Racing. This information serves as a beneficial instrument to help members of the HRWA group of their journeys as mentors, mentees, and in pursuing private {and professional} progress.
“The membership program is regularly evolving, and we’re excited to announce new perks and assets all year long. As our motion has developed, it has turn out to be clear that we’re way more than only a summit; we really embody the options of an affiliation,” stated Hronis.
The Horse Racing Girls’s Affiliation stays steadfast in its dedication to its core pillars: participating, elevating, and investing within the girls of horse racing. All people are invited to affix HRWA on this thrilling new chapter.
For extra details about the Horse Racing Girls’s Affiliation, membership particulars, and upcoming occasions, please go to our web site at www.horseracingwomen.com.
