SWS was represented by Dr Abdulaziz Al Noman, its sports advisor; Al Yazia Al Suwaidi, director of the women's sport department; and Sheikha Al Khatri, head of the planning and technical follow-up division, alongside officials from Sharjah Women's Sports Club. UAESF's delegation included Hassan bin Hadiya Al Shehhi, UAESF Secretary-General, and Dr Mohammed Amer, its technical director.

SWS staff walked the UAESF team through the initiatives it already runs in schools and how they're tailored to different age groups. In turn, UAESF officials pressed on how those existing pathways could be used to introduce shooting more systematically — and pushed for operational plans and staged programmes that would let girls progress from a first taste of the sport into more specialised training.

Laser shooting

Among UAESF's suggestions: using laser shooting rigs to introduce girls to the sport without live ammunition, paired with competitions and activities pitched at specific age brackets. The idea is to give the sport a foothold in schools and, over time, grow the number of girls taking it up.

Testing for talent

The two sides also discussed running scientific assessments tied to what shooting demands physically, technically and mentally — testing designed to flag which students have an aptitude for the sport and route them toward appropriate training tracks based on the results rather than guesswork.

An awareness push

UAESF offered to help build out educational material on shooting — covering physical and mental preparation as well as sports nutrition — and said it was ready to supply technical expertise to help develop that content and get programmes running to the sport's own standards.

Measuring what works

On implementation, the meeting set out the kind of metrics needed to track the programmes' impact: how many girls take part, how the participant base grows, and how many show enough promise to move into more specialised training. Regular reports would track progress and feed back into revising the plans.

The two organisations also discussed forming a joint working group — drawing in Sharjah Women's Sports Club as well — to coordinate next steps and keep the programmes on track, with UAESF's technical staff helping to draft and review the training plans involved.