Project Based Learning

Assignment
Gender Discrepancies in College Coaching

By: Brittany Archer,

Timera Brooks, Jamie
Clarke, Tessa Johnston,
Kauhlil King
 Introduction
● In the school sport workplace, women remain in the minority in almost every job
category calling for the assertion of authority, leadership, and vision. Among the
college coaching ranks, taking into account all teams for male and female athletes,
women make up 20 percent of the entire workforce.
● Notably, nearly 10 percent of all departments nationwide have no women in their
administrative structure.
● No women serve as commissioners in the 11 most powerful Division I conferences
(example: ACC, SEC, Big 10, Pac-12, Big East)
● Within the NCAA itself, the higher the level of importance in the governance structure,
the lower the percentage of women involved in leadership roles.
● As barriers to women’s access to employment & success in sport continue, promising
events are occurring that may suggest that the efforts of everyone involved in sport
programs are moving toward equality.

Staurowsky, Ellen J.. Women and Sport: From Liberation to Celebration (p. 217). Human Kinetics.
 Kauhlil:

“Knowledge
is knowledge
● Double standards-Hiring-XOs &
it doesn’t Team man. & Leadership-XGS
have a
gender
● Ground breakers-Becky
attached to hammon-Spurs-FFTFNC August 5, 2014, Hammon was hired
it.”-Coach
Crutchfield ● Future advancements-see it in by the Spurs as an assistant coach,
becoming the first full-time female
olympic sports... assistant coach in any of the four
● Would you coach men-Not major professional sports in North
opposed- more well rounded America.
● Passion: Mentoring YW
Anne Crutchfield
Head Women's Basketball Coach/Interim Director of My Research:
Athletics
Focused on female coaches’ desire to be in po
of influence vs power.
My 2 cents: There is no difference in the desire to
influence between men & women coaches.
 Jamie:

David Willson

❖ Emory and Henry Men’s Basketball Coach

Ronrico White

❖ Gardner Webb Assistant Men’s Basketball

 Brittany:

● Wyatt Collins, Associate Head Coach,

University of Texas at Austin.
Swimming
○ Current US Olympic Team
○ Former Singapore National Team
Assistant
● Quin Snyder, Head Coach Utah Jazz
○ University of Missouri
○ D-League
○ Duke University
 Brittany:

● Smacker Miles, former NCAA

swimmer
○ Reporter
■ Longhorn Network,
Dallas Cowboys, ESPN
○ Les Miles’ Daughter
 Tessa:

● Radvile Autukaite (Coach Rad), ● Sammi Goldsmith, Assistant Coach at

Graduate Assistant at Virginia Tech Emory University in Atlanta, GA.
University.
○ Internationally vs United States
 Timara:
● Tommy Forrester (Coach
Forrester), Head Softball Coach
○ What is it like coaching
women as a male?
● Jaclyn Dickens (Coach D),
Associate Head Women's
Basketball Coach
○ As a female what is it like having
a male assistant?
 Plan & Strategy

● #SHECANCOACH
○ An effort to increase the number of
females in the coaching and athletic
administration profession.
○ Tucker Center for Research on Girls &
Women in Sport
● WBCAs ‘So You Want to be a Coach’
Program
○ Expand Graduate Assistant Program
Literary Review

Madu, Zito. Becky Hammon Isn't 'Skipping the Line,' but She Is Exposing Bias in NBA Coaching Hires. 9 May 2018,
www.sbnation.com/2018/5/9/17332634/becky-hammon-bucks-head-coach-interview-nba-hiring-bias.
Accessed 29 Nov. 2018.

Murray, P., Lord, R., & Lorimer, R. (n.d.). The influence of gender on perceptions of coaches’ relationships with their
athletes: A novel video-based methodology. doi:10.3897/bdj.4.e7720.figure2f

Staurowsky, Ellen J.. Women and Sport: From Liberation to Celebration (p. 217). Human Kinetics. Kindle Edition.

Stark, R. Where Are the Women? | An NCAA Champion Feature.

Theberge, N. (1990). Gender, Work, and Power: The Case of Women in Coaching. The Canadian Journal of Sociology /
Cahiers Canadiens De Sociologie, 15(1), 59-75. doi:10.2307/3341173

The Tucker Center Research for Girls & Sport:

http://www.cehd.umn.edu/tuckercenter/projects/shecancoach.html