J-GIRLS take over the mats around Australia! Don't miss these photos!

More than 200 girls and women took to judo mats around Australia as part of Judo Australia's first J-GIRLS National Mat Takeover last Sunday. This Sunday, Sydney and Canberra will join the team - REGISTER NOW!

Celebrating the joy and community of judo, girls and women from ages five to well into their seventies, beginners to high dan grades took to the mat for some girls-only judo.

Ambassadors from our national elite team - Aoife Coughlan in Cairns, Anneliese Fielder in Brisbane, Maeve Coughlan in Melbourne, Tinka Easton in Hobart, Ryley Rametta in Adelaide, Alannah Joyce in Darwin, and Saya Middleton and Maria Swan in Perth - were joined by local players and coaches to guide and inspire new judoka.

Each attendee received a J-Girls t-shirt to welcome them to what is planned to become a regular event in dojos around the country, with a major J-Girls reunion planned to take place at Nationals on the Gold Coast in June. Like all J-Girls events, it will be about fun and friendship.

Enjoy our slideshows from cities around the country on March 23 - and don't forget to register for TAKEOVER: SYDNEY and TAKEOVER: CANBERRA taking place on March 30.

(Click to see the photos full size!)

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