Clubs do everything they can to hire female coaches. They are highly sought after and typically receive higher pay. Supply and demand.

The Washington Spirit has a really cool female coaching mentorship program. The Spirit helps mentors female coaches each year in an effort to bring in more female coaches.

We have a great female coach at our club. She also has young children to raise, so it’s a real challenge for her and her husband to dedicate time for coaching every evening plus raise their kids.

The challenges are real.

Parent of DD here.
I too would like to see a female coach for my DD. But seeing less female coaches is not exclusive to this area. Nor is it just this sport.
NCAA only has 40% women coaches for women’s teams. I know club soccer is nowhere near 40%

Anonymous wrote:It’s still a man’s world. It sucks.

No one stopping women from being coaches, in fact they are highly sought after.

Anonymous wrote:Arlington is full of women coaches. Similiar to how their talent tops out in 8th or 9th grade quandry. Its great for young girls at the u-little development stage but by the HS ages, if you are not also a great coach its matters less if your coach is the same gender when it comes to winning and building a program.

I'm up I-95 and my daughter had a pretty good female coach from U8-U11. She was a great role model for those ages, but her coaching decisions over time started to alienate a bunch of the other parents (kids pigeonholed to one position, unequal playing time, wins over development etc.) We left for a NA pre-ECNL club for our own reasons, but I guess they ended up replacing her the year after we left. Our new male coaches were far superior and my daughter responded just as well to them as her prior coach. Ultimately, you just want good (male or female) coaches who care about the kids.

Discussed with a male director friend of mine, and he tries but struggles to find good female coaches.

It's a real bummer.

Arlington is full of women coaches. Similiar to how their talent tops out in 8th or 9th grade quandry. Its great for young girls at the u-little development stage but by the HS ages, if you are not also a great coach its matters less if your coach is the same gender when it comes to winning and building a program.

It's a shortcoming in the entire ecosystem; my girls, their friends/teammates, and other camp attendees hate going to soccer camps due exclusively the boy:girl imbalance.

Anonymous wrote:The Valor Standard highlighted that they had 3 new female coaches....

Have any of them coached before?

I’ve been following the NWSL this season and surprised by the same thing.

It’s still a man’s world. It sucks.

The Valor Standard highlighted that they had 3 new female coaches....

Any clubs in NoVa more likely to have female coaches?

True.

We are fairly new to club soccer and our daughter is only U10. I am shocked at the lack of female coaches among our club and the clubs we play! Where are all the female coaches?? I feel especially young girls teams would benefit from seeing women coaches out there as role models but boys could benefit too!