Female college coaches
An article on Forbes.com about female college coaches - the focus of the piece is a lawsuit by a former women's volleyball coach at Fresno State who was fired and replaced by a male coach.
An article on Forbes.com about female college coaches - the focus of the piece is a lawsuit by a former women's volleyball coach at Fresno State who was fired and replaced by a male coach.
An updated study from researchers Linda Jean Carpenter and R. Vivian Acosta, professors at Brooklyn College, who have been compiling data on Title IX for almost 30 years. Here is a Buffalo News piece that recaps the study. One of the highlights of the report is how the ranks of women competing in college sports keeps going up, but the number of women who coach them is going down - something I just wrote about for my university's alumni mag.
Also, another study from the Sport Journal titled "The Effect
of Gender Opportunity in Sports on the Priorities and Aspirations of Young
Athletes." Here's a snippet from the conclusion:
"One of the most telling results of this survey as it reflects the situation of women in sports is the fact that female athlete at all levels gave extremely low scores among the likelihood they would pursue a career in sports, which could be a result of the declining number of women in coaching and administrative positions in female athletics." (Flanagan, Sport Journal, Spring 2006)
This is a piece I wrote for Northeastern's Alumni magazine - I wrote it in the fall, but the issue just came out last week. I profile our three women head coaches (one just resigned) while also looking at the issue of women coaching at the collegiate level - the numbers, issues, etc.
My Dad (thanks!) sent me a link to this local story in Maine about Connie Hallett, who has been the girls' swim coach at Deering High for 24 years. Now she's also coaching the boys' team b/c their coach went up to the collegiate level. It's an interesting read for me since I've been working on a piece about women coaches (very few women coach boy/men's teams).
The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inducted former LSU women's head coach Sue Gunter last week (Gunter died in August). The New York Times runs a nice profile of her, but also of the current coach Pokey Chatman, who is dealing with the aftermath of Katrina and spoke at Gunter's induction. Read it here - "Words of an Ex-Coach Become a Helpful Guide"
