Walk it Out
Inspired by the pandemic-induced social media trend known as “hot girl walks,” Monica Villegas and Lucia Di Tore launched Hot Girl Walk Miami in the summer of 2022 to bring the ladies of the 305 together. The event initially hit the pavement at Brickell Key, but the group grew so large that they were forced to relocate. Now participants spend each Saturday striding around Edgewater, Coconut Grove, Coral Gables, and Aventura Mall before catching up at a coffee shop or restaurant. “We get moms with their strollers, we have women who are new to Miami and want to make new friends, and girls who have been here for a couple years and don’t feel they’ve made that connection,” Villegas says. Stay tuned as the duo gears up for a special one-year-anniversary celebration this summer.
Acing It
Feel the rush of a tennis match with the Slice Girls, a local tennis club founded by four Miami women. “Tennis is a very stiff sport, but not for us,” says co-founder Carole Hollant. “We’re kids on the court.” What started in 2022 as a foursome playing matches at Moore Park in Allapattah grew after Instagram posts of their cute tennis ‘fits garnered positive comments—and interest from other women who wanted to join the court crew. By that summer, they’d structured the club into weekly sessions and a monthly clinic. As a nod to the ’90s girl group the Spice Girls, they dubbed their group the Slice Girls. The clinics draw more than 50 women each month, ranging from women who have never held a racket to heavy hitters. “Bring your sisters, bring your cousins, your classmates, your colleagues—this a fun space where everybody can come together and blow off some steam,” Hollant says.
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