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  1. All right. Hello everyone.
  2. My name is Liz Evans,
  3. I'll and I'll be presenting my research project of women in coaching.
  4. Um the topic of my project is where all the women coaches went in
  5. high level coaching, whether it's collegiate
  6. level or professional sports.
  7. Um and what the issues are that are keeping women out of this profession.
  8. So
  9. Only about 41% of women's collegiate teams are coached by women in.
  10. Only 28% of youth sports coaches are women.
  11. Today. We'll be going through um kind of what has changed since
  12. sports kind of came about.
  13. Um we'll go through role models and why they're important and how this can
  14. get more women into coaching will go through title nine and how that changed,
  15. how women get into coaching and women's sports in general.
  16. And then also just the hiring process of
  17. putting women in these positions of leadership.
  18. And then we'll go through what all this means and then hit my sources.
  19. So in these pictures, at least I thought they were important to put in. So,
  20. um the woman in Orange, that's Pat Summitt,
  21. she's the winningest basketball coach in Tennessee women's basketball history.
  22. So she's a super important coach and to me that
  23. was my biggest role model to go into coaching.
  24. Um So big fan of Pat Summitt and she's done a lot for women in the game.
  25. She unfortunately passed away a few years ago, but still
  26. um has a huge impact on women in sports. And then the bottom picture on the left,
  27. um it's Kelsey Martinez.
  28. She's the first ever, uh Raiders assistant coach in the NFL,
  29. so that's a pretty big deal being a woman in an
  30. NFL and coaching men and then up on the top right,
  31. top middle
  32. um is Becky Hammon and she is an NBA assistant coach for the san Antonio spurs.
  33. So
  34. my thesis for my paper was that there are not enough women in coaching,
  35. especially the high level like collegiately or professionally and
  36. that's due to roadblocks keeping them from the game.
  37. So we're going to go through some of those roadblocks and why they haven't
  38. mm
  39. But my findings in my paper that there were two major
  40. issues as to why there are less women in coaching,
  41. especially now more than ever
  42. the first major issue is that there aren't any role models.
  43. A quote from kelly bryan from Kenyon College, she's the woman's head soccer coach.
  44. Um she said that there's not enough women who realized coaching
  45. is an opportunity for a lot of women in soccer.
  46. It's likely because they've never had a female coach somewhere along the way.
  47. And a lot of these girls have made coaches have male coaches
  48. growing up and never realized that they could be a coach.
  49. Um something that I touched on in my paper was that
  50. it's really important for women to have role models,
  51. especially that want to go into coaching.
  52. Um and it takes a lot
  53. to be a role model for someone,
  54. but also role models are super important for Children.
  55. Um and their behavioral models so you can look at somebody that
  56. you look up to and as a child you try to mirror that
  57. um there also
  58. representing what could be possible.
  59. So like I said in that first slide, Pat Summitt with somebody that
  60. um
  61. made me want to go into coaching just because
  62. first of all I thought she was super cool,
  63. like had a ridiculous record at Tennessee and
  64. um made a huge impact on the game of basketball,
  65. but she also is a representation of what a woman can
  66. be in leadership and what they can be in coaching.
  67. Um and then the last function of
  68. being a role model is just being inspirational.
  69. So without role models, kids don't really have anything to aspire to.
  70. Um and that can be anybody from high school or club coach or a teacher or all the way up
  71. to somebody like Pat Summitt or Becky Hammon where their
  72. coaching and they're super successful in what they do.
  73. Um So a lack of role models and
  74. coaching makes it really hard for more women to get into coaching because
  75. they don't see that growing up and they don't see that on tv.
  76. So the next issue that I wanted to touch on was title nine and hiring methods.
  77. So this quote comes from Carol Hutchins who's the head softball coach
  78. at Michigan um and you can read that as you go through,
  79. but
  80. When title nine came along, there were
  81. 90% of
  82. collegiate coaches were females for female sports.
  83. Um and now that women are kind of not being hired into positions of leadership,
  84. this is impacting the next generation of women in coaching.
  85. So title line got women into playing sports,
  86. but a lot of those openings went to men as they saw,
  87. there was more opportunity in coaching.
  88. And
  89. a majority of
  90. athletic directors are male
  91. And actually 90% of of coaching positions after title line dropped down to 40%,
  92. so there are only 40% of
  93. coaching positions that go to women from women's sports
  94. in the post title nine era.
  95. Um and that's because with male athletic directors,
  96. people are going to hire who they're comfortable with.
  97. So if you've got a bunch of references and a bunch of people that you're looking at,
  98. um to hire somebody and you're a male athletic director,
  99. whether you realize it or not,
  100. you're more comfortable hiring another male because they're more similar to you.
  101. So it kind of is a top down,
  102. it kind of all trickles down into if you have a male athletic director,
  103. you're more likely to hire men and if you have a female athletic director,
  104. you're more likely to hire women.
  105. Um and that's just another issue of how it kind of starts at the top and
  106. without women in leadership positions like an athletic director, like a coach,
  107. um not many women are going to get that opportunity to move to that next, next spot.
  108. So overall with my paper I just went through um kind of wide, there are really no women
  109. uh in coaching and why there's been such a rapid drop in numbers
  110. from right before title nine hit when there was 90% of coaching positions um
  111. were
  112. females and
  113. Coaching Girls Sports. Um and now they're down to about 40% or less.
  114. So the major difference between then and now is that
  115. there's a lot of opportunity for coaching positions,
  116. but a lot of the opportunity goes to men.
  117. Um and also just in a generation like ours, if there's Children
  118. or girls or
  119. anybody really that wants to go into
  120. coaching and they don't see that representation
  121. on tv on their high school team on their club team or whoever,
  122. if they all only have male coaches,
  123. A lot of girls aren't going to think that they can
  124. go on and coach because they don't have any role models.
  125. So
  126. further research definitely needs to be done into how to integrate
  127. women into leadership and coaching positions at a higher level.
  128. Um but it needs to lay the groundwork for the next generation of women in coaching.
  129. So bottom line is um title line got women into playing sports,
  130. but now it's time to let them lead in the sports that they love so much.
  131. So that's about all I have on this. I can show you my sources real quick.
  132. Um, these are from my paper, as well as some of the information in this
  133. reporting. So thanks for listening. Hopefully it wasn't
  134. too long. I might have gone over, but thanks for paying attention.