Indeed Ms Tozer is multifaceted. A fitness addict, she still does things that a woman twenty years her junior would still not dare.  It was just the other they she walked across several countries while in Europe.   

While starting at a very tender age, Tozer represented Sri Lanka for athletics, netball, and basketball since her age of sixteen. Yet, it was netball  All her sports achievements motivated her to be involved in many social works as a volunteer in supporting girls and young women in sports. She has been a guest speaker in many events and televisions to talk about the need for empowerment of girl children and the importance of parity when brining up girl and boy children. Tozer was a member of the National Sports Council of Sri Lanka in 2015 and supporting women’s netball and tasked with writing a policy document for all sports.

As a role model, Tozer founded ‘Women in Need’ in 1987 with her partners to help abused women and girls with counselling and legal and medical support. Further, she is running a Facebook page named ‘Safe Sri Lanka for Children’ to take a stand against abuse of children and protect them.

The The International Olympic Committee annually confers ‘The IOC Women and Sport Awards’ to promote the advancement of gender quality in sport. The IOC’s aim on this award is to recognise outstanding achievement and contributions made to develop, encourage, and strengthen the participation of women and girls at all levels in the sport world, in order to close the gender gap.

IOC invited all the NOCs to nominate one candidate either a man or a woman or an organisation for the above award from each NOC for 2019. Then IOC selects one at world level and one each for each continent. National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka called for the application for the first time and received six applications. A five-member evaluation committee of NOC Sri Lanka selected Ms. Caryll Tozer to nominate for the Award.

This special award was conferred by Senior DIG (Rtd.) SumithEdirisinghe, the vice president of National Olympic Committee of Sri Lanka on August 6, 2019 before the start of the start of the 8th executive committee meeting.