South Australian Women's Amateur Sports Council (1953 - )

The South Australian Women's Amateur Sports Council was established with financial and administrative assistance from the National Fitness Council to promote the interests of sportswomen in South Australia, and to help formulate "a common policy on planning and development for women's sport". One of its most important initiatives, in cooperation with the National Fitness Council of South Australia, was the establishment of the Women's Memorial Playing Fields on the corner of Shepherds Hill Road and Ayliffes Road, St. Marys.

President

• Mills, May (1890 - 1984)

  May Mills was president of the South Australian Women's Amateur Sports Council in 1953

Related Corporate Bodies

• National Fitness Council of South Australia (1939 - 1975)

  The South Australian Women's Amateur Sports Council and the National Fitness Council campaigned together succssfully to gain funding and resources that would evenutaly lead to the establishment of the South Australian Women's Memorial Playing Fields.

Australian Women Exhibitions

• She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html. [ Details... ]

See also

• Randall, Leonie M., 'A Fair Go?: Women in Sport in South Australia: 1945 - 1965', Hons thesis, 1986. (Also available at http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/ASSHSSH/ASSHSSH06.pdf) [ Details... ]