Only female coaches for girls???

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• Oct 16, 2007

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Just to be an agent provacateur , and cuz I'm bored waiting for tonight's game ;D; let me pose a question----?Do you think women have an advantage over men when it comes to coaching girls' sports???

Give it some thought and please state your reasons why or why not.

(Bonus points if you explain why[if it doesn't matter] with girls' sports, then why I have never/will never see a woman coaching a boy's sport in highschool/college/etc.) ?

 

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• Oct 16, 2007

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Should we PM Mike Candrea for his opinion on this?

 

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• Oct 16, 2007

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katjoebenmom said:

Just to be an agent provacateur , ....... then why I have never/will never see a woman coaching a boy's sport in highschool/college/etc.) ?

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Isn't it obvious :-? ;D

 

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• Oct 16, 2007

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By all means, pm MC

No flip answers allowed---I want REASONS

 

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• Oct 16, 2007

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men are better coaches seems pretty simple to me.LOL

 

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• Oct 16, 2007

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My DD's high school had a girl CC coach for the boys varsity and girls varsity teams.

 

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jdawg3 said:

men are better coaches seems pretty simple to me.LOL

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see, it is obvious.

Fpitch_dad said:

My DD's high school had a girl CC coach for the boys varsity and girls varsity teams.

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cross country doesn't count. Very little decision making.

 

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• Oct 16, 2007

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No one wants to put on their thinking caps and give an honest, thought out opinion, huh?? :-?

Was hoping for a stimulating exchange of ideas (or at least a good rant!!!) ?;D

(seems someone else wants to do a little baiting) ?

 

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• Oct 16, 2007

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Hey...it wasn't that long ago that Goldie Hawn coached a boys high school football team! She was tough but fair ...what a competitor, incrdible football mind and she really cared! A mentor for all sports. ;D

 

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• Oct 16, 2007

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If the shoe fits whoever, WEAR IT!! There are very very good male coaches and there are some very very good female ones too!

 

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• Oct 16, 2007

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SILLY BOYS----*sigh*~I should have known better. : ;D



(I'll be back to this later, gotta go get snacks for the game tonight)

 

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• Oct 16, 2007

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It is a shame that these guys have such a skewed view.... ?most of them have daughters and they sure wouldn't want their daughter's discriminated against.

I do think female coaches have a slight ?advantage coaching female sports. ?As for women coaching male sports. ?Haven't seen too much of that.... ?even if there was a great candidate.... the AD would really hesitate to hire the female coach. ?

Women coaches are increasing. ?10 years ago there were almost NO female coaches. ?Think about travel ball, very few. ? Barriers are coming down . ? 10 years from now, you will see more female coaches in all sports. ? ?What makes a great coach has nothing to do with their gender. ?It has to do with character, integrity, knowledge of the games, the ability to teach well and the ablility to pull greatness out of a player..... ?etc. .... not gender. ?

Females coaching football.... ? it could happen. ?Need a few more barriers to come down. ?Little less mockery and a bit more open minds.... even on this forum. ? ?JMO

 

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• Oct 16, 2007

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First, let me say it's a good thing for girls that we men are stepping up to coach them. Otherwise, there would be a lot of girls' teams without coaches.

Here is why there are far more male coaches than female at the high school and travel levels: A lot more men are interested or have the time to coach than women. I don't know all the reasons for that, but I've had three young female coaches (who played college ball) over the last 7 years or so stop coaching when they had kids. So you start with a larger pool of possibilities with men (for whatever reason) and then the female pool gets smaller as they begin to have kids and you find a large percentage of coaches are men. The one place where that isn't the case is in college athletics, where they seem to make a concerted effort to hire females who have recently finished their playing careers.

Whether females automatically make better coaches, I certainly don't think so. I think the burden of proof would be on anyone who claimed that females (or males) would automatically be a better coach because of their sex. The reason most often given for females beting better coaches of girls is that they will understand the girls better, and therefore be more sympathetic or empathetic. Maybe that's the case, but those aren't the reports I typically get back. Each individual coach is so different that's it's hard to generalize, anyway.

I think it's a nice, politically correct notion to toss out there that we need to find a female coach for a girls' team, but if I'm doing the hiring, I'll take the best coach I can find without regard to whether the coach is male or female.

 

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• Oct 16, 2007

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Each situation is different. There's no right or wrong answer based solely on gender. As sports continue to evolve, you'll start to see female coaches for male sports - it'll take awhile though. Think how females have become sports reporters for male sports - didn't see that 10 years ago. As far as softball, my DD now coaches with me on our 12U team. She coached 3 years of rec and played 6 years of travel ball. We also have another female that completes our staff - 4 year varsity and 6 years of travel exp. So, to answer your question, I think a mix works best. We have almost any situation covered.

 

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• Oct 16, 2007

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I say only knowledgable coaches for girls, Male or Female is fine with me.

 

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Here in our neck of the woods, there are several women that coach a boys high school sport.

So, should we segregate the classrooms by gender now? Female teachers teaching the girls and male teachers teaching the boys?

Coaching and teaching are the same. It is not the gender of the teacher/coach that stimulates kids to learn. It is the teaching/coaching techniques that stimulate kids to learn. Teachers and coaches, whether they are male or female, have to figure out what will make or stimulate an individual to learn.

To me, it doesn't matter whether the coach is male or female. What matters is whether the coach knows how to teach.

 

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• Oct 16, 2007

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It really depends on the coach if He/she knows the game and can relate to the girls all is good IMHO Ex females players relate better with girls (been there done that) works a little better than we men think

 

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• Oct 16, 2007

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Hope, Joe A, vstormmerle----thank you!!! ?This is what I was looking for~a reasoned discussion about the situation and why it is what it is.

I understand there is a whole history behind why there are so many more men in coaching positions, and I am very grateful that we have had them. ?Almost all of my coaches while I was playing (you know, during the War of 1812 ?) were men, and I enjoyed playing for them.

I know that women in the past were not encouraged as much as men to participate in sports, in fact, I know that many were actively discouraged. ?I realize that as more women are willing and able to play, more will be willing and able to coach.

I am in no way advocating for women coaches only for women and male coaches only for men (a preposterous notion), just trying to stir some debate about idea of what makes an ideal coach for women (I think we have already all agreed that they have different natures than boys) and we can all agree that the most qualified person is always the best candidate for the job.


(And although some may joke about it, I do believe that many men do feel that men are always better coaches) jmo

 

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• Oct 16, 2007

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Gender shouldn't matter, but one "advantage" a male coach MIGHT have (at least with some girls) is familiarity. Best softball coach my daughter and I have known is probably Amy Densevich (coach of Div I State Champ, Hudson HS). Yet when my daughter was looking where she was going to play softball in college, she expressed a preference (albeit a very slight one) to having a male coach. Why? Simply she's more used to male coaches. She's played at one time or another soc cer, softball, basketball and volleyball. With the exception of volleyball, nearly every coach she has had has been male (Only contact with Amy was as first pitching instructor and then as opposing team's coach); and my daughter would add, volleyball coaches are crazy! Familiarity may also be part of the reason you don't see many women coaching a boys team.

 

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• Oct 16, 2007

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Unfortunately Joe A doesn't do all the hiring. You still see in smaller areas that the good ol' boys, regardless of knowledge, are hired by their buddy the AD.....when the area is crawling with more knowledgeable females that avoid the politics of it all.

There is a certain little farm-town HS that I played for almost decade ago that is still suffering along in this type of situation. When I played in HS, this particular coach didn't believe in bunting! (& he is still around helping with the team.....I wonder if his opinion has changed at all) If it weren't for all the travel teams & summer experience he wouldn't be in the hall of fame today. (he was also one of those coaches that would just run & run his players for punishment) This is how you end up with great softball players that do NOT play in HS way over here in Ohio. They can recognize early on (from all their travel experience) that this will be a terrible situation for them & they just choose to avoid it.....and continue playing with their travel team for all the exposure they need.

OK--kjbm--I'm done with my rant for now.