To our entire GOTR Community, it is an absolute joy to work and play alongside each of you. With gratitude, we wish you peace, joy and Star Power always. 💗✨⭐️
Warmest wishes,
Annie, Regina, Kathy, Maria, Anna & Jenn
GOTR is for Every Girl All Year Long
On this Giving Tuesday, we share this video of Girls on the Run Greater Cincinnati Council Founder Erin Hamilton as she receives the Amy Elmore Unstoppable Spirit Award.
This year marks 20 years that we’ve been in operation locally. In the video, Erin perfectly captures why GOTR is an important outlet for local girls and how our community supports our work in many ways.
If you’d like to contribute to our organization, and know that you are empowering the next generation of leadership when you do, click here now:
https://www.gotrcincinnati.org/giving/Individual-Giving-2024
Thank you, 5K Cheer Zones & Mascots!
Let’s all give three cheers for our incredible 5K CHEER ZONES and Visiting Mascots! 🙌 👏 🙌
Thank you all so much for your high-fives, noise-making, shouts of ‘WOOOO!’ and ‘You Got This!’ and general encouragement all along the course. We’re sure our girls had a little extra pep in their steps because of it! 👯
Gamma Phi Beta at University of Cincinnati
Accenture
The Classy Cats
Alpha Chi Omega at Miami University
Gamma Phi Beta - Miami University of Ohio
Grant Thornton
FC Cincinnati
UC Track Team
Honey from the Queen Bee Half Marathon
The Flying Pig Flying Pig Marathon
Pacer from Medpace
Thank you, 5K Volunteers!
A Heartfelt THANK YOU to Our Incredible 5K Volunteers! 🫶💖
🥳 Our 20th Birthday Girls on the Run 5K was a resounding success, and it was made possible in large part by you... our volunteers!
Despite a cloudy morning, your enthusiasm shone brightly. ✨ Every role was crucial, from setting up the venue and Fun Zones, checking-in participants and volunteers, photographers capturing magical moments, course supporters diligently offering help at the Start / Finish, Water Stops and throughout downtown, Cheer Zones cheering, Green Team keeping us tidy and to everyone in between… you brought all kinds of Star Power to this event and we could not be more grateful! ⭐️
GOTR Cincinnati Fall 5K
GOTR 5K Days are always special and each is unique in its own way.
We feel immeasurably fortunate to share in these events with our ever-expanding community and are grateful for the bonds strengthened each season. Whether between girls, with our like-minded community or with city partners, we honor the relationships built to empower others, especially local girls.
Check out a few milestones we celebrated along with cheering over 950 girls across the finish line yesterday. And stay tuned as we share many more pics from the entire 5K course in the next few days!
✨ This fall, we worked with a local nonprofit called The Bridge Adaptive Sports & Rec to welcome a hand cycling division to our start. The Bridge also brought along a group from be.well at Children’s Hospital, which also works with kiddos of all abilities. The top it off, an anonymous donor sponsored all 30+ registrations.
✨ Another first - we hosted a Community Partners section of our venue where we invited nonprofits serving the same populations as GOTR to exhibit and share their mission. There’s room for everyone at the table here at GOTR.
✨ For the first time since Covid, we hosted our largest season of program participants. Now more than ever, our girls NEED our programming.
✨ And finally, we invited Sheriff Charmaine McGuffey and Cincinnati Police Chief Theresa Theetge to be special guests. The Sheriff is the first woman to win office in this position (having recently won reelection, too) and the Chief is the first female to hold this position in the department. Girl power!
A huge thanks goes to our incredible volunteers, dedicated parents and guardians, steadfast community partners, committed staff and especially all of the strong girls who made today yesterday possible. 🫶🤟💖
Early Bird Pricing Ends 10/16
Our 20th Birthday Fall 5K Celebration is just ONE MONTH AWAY! 🥳 🍂
Be sure to register by TONIGHT AT 11:59pm so that we can guarantee your shirt size for the fesitivities. Early bird pricing also goes up after tonight. 🐦
And we still need over 100 Volunteers to help us produce what USA Today calls one of the funnest 5K in America… don’t YOU want to be part of that? :D
Sign up for either here: http://bit.ly/5Kgotrcincinnati
International Day of the Girl
Big or small, every girl's ideas, words, and perspective matter. And on International Day of the Girl, we emphasize the importance of nurturing girls’ self-confidence, embracing their individuality, and encouraging them to activate their limitless potential.
Recent research showed that eight out of 10 girls feel they are going to “explode” because of pressure, and nine out of 10 feel under pressure to fit into specific roles or stereotypes. On this International Day of the Girl, let’s empower girls everywhere to silence this negative self-talk and replace it with confidence that shines from within!
#InternationalDayOfTheGirl #EmpowerHer #Equality #GirlsOnTheRun #GirlEmpowerment #GOTRGirl
Good luck, Queen Bees!
GOTR Cincinnati wishes the very best of luck to all of our SoleMate Bees 👑 🐝 participating in the 11th Anniversary Queen Bee Half Marathon this weekend! Go sting that thing, friends! You are all #SoleMateStrong and it shows.
Sneaker Soiree 2024 Photo Album
Our official Sneaker Soiree 2024 photo album is ready to view! 🎉✨
Follow this link to see just some of the fun we had while raising critically needed funding that will enable us to reach and empower more girls across Greater Cincinnati: https://gotrcincinnati.smugmug.com/2024-Sneaker-Soiree
📸 Special thanks to Talkington Media and @Memories by Rebekah Nash for these images.
Thank you, Molly. 💞
Having your guiding presence with us for our 5th Annual Sneaker Soiree, 20th Birthday Celebration, and morning panel discussion was an absolute joy. ✨
Thank you for sharing your stories, your passion, your personal brand of wisdom, your understanding of what girls need and want and your willingness to let them express themselves in whatever way makes them feel most whole. 🦋
And in a remarkably telling gesture demonstrating your capacity to uplift others, you shared the spotlight by turning it onto our very own Maria Kretchik, naming her as a living, breathing embodiment of GOTR’s mission in action.
We feel immense pride in being able to carry out the vision that you gave form to many years ago and will continue to serve girls (and women!) in this program until we ALL know and believe in our limitless potential.
Thank you for your heart, your mind, your humility, your bold storytelling.
Thank you for you.
Here’s to another 20 years of Girls on the Run! 🎉
Read Molly's tribute to Maria here:
https://www.facebook.com/molly.barker.54772728/posts/pfbid0EiG3248kNaWhutyXfgfPq4ctyo55y55aFKXM4keMhcEh4KDa4oGM29aQoJxZkQzil
Molly Barker Speaks
This weekend will bring us two incredible opportunities to meet and hear from Girls on the Run founder Molly Wilmer-Barker! We hope you’ll take advantage of this unique situation and join us at one or both events. 🎉☀️
Tomorrow evening, at our Sneaker Soiree and Birthday Celebration, Molly will serve as keynote speaker during the main program. https://www.gotrcincinnati.org/sneaker-soiree
On Sunday morning, she’ll lead a more intimate panel discussion with others in the GOTR community including girls and almuna. https://www.gotrcincinnati.org/news/details/a-morning-with-molly
Don’t miss out on this chance to learn about the meaningful beginnings of Girls on the Run and what passions drive Molly in her life now! Hope to see you soon.🎉☀️
