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[quote=Anonymous]Coach here,

I think a lot of it boils down to a numbers game. I recently attended a soccer licensing coarse and out of about 30 coaches there were two females in attendance.

This is not my first course and is fairly normal numbers wise. I will also add that the women in attendance were celebrated, and both the instructors and the other male coaches encouraged them and more women to get into coaching.

I can't speak for other sports, but with over 15 years' experience in coaching soccer it's not surprising to me that the coaching staff is male dominated simply based on what I see coming through the pipe.

Some additional, albeit anecdotal evidence. My daughter who played in college was considering coaching as a potential career or at least side gig. Everywhere she considered applying to was extremely interested and eager to add her to their staff, as they wanted more women for their women's programs. So, I don't think the barriers to entry are insurmountable.

What I do find always interesting is we tend to look at the pinnacle of programs (D1 schools for example) and try to extrapolate from there. I would be interested to know what D2 and D3 staffing breakdowns look like for women's soccer.

Lastly, high level programs tend to look for the best candidate, regardless of sex etc. It would be more interesting to compare coaching selection against the pool of realistically available coaching talent, rather then simply say "I wonder why they don't have more coaches with this sex, race, age, religion etc..."

So I guess my question would be who do you think would better coach these two teams instead of the current coaches and why?[/quote]

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