Nicole M. LaVoi, Ph.D.
Some of you may not know who Shannon Miller is, but those of us in The State of Hockey (Minnesota) do. Shannon Miller was a highly successful women’s hockey coach at University of Minnesota-Duluth where her teams have won five NCAA championships, she developed 28 current and former Olympians, and amassed a .713 winning percentage. …
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I recently sat down the WCCO TV’s David McCoy to discuss the Women in College Coaching Report Card, false narratives about women coaches, and why women coaches matter. View our discussion here. View my 5 part blog series on false narratives here. You can read about my passion for gender and sport in this piece …
Happy International Women’s Day 2018! This is the fifth part of my Changing the Narrative for Women Sport Coaches blog series. You can read I, II, III and IV. This one will be brief! I often hear that “women don’t want to move their families” as a reason why there are fewer female head coaches. …
In Part I and II of this series, Changing the Narrative for Women Sport Coaches, I laid out how women coaches are framed shapes the discussion, and the numerous “blame the women” narratives that exist. In this blog I will tackle one particular narrative, provide counter narratives and suggest strategies for change. BLAME THE WOMAN …
Continue reading “Part III: Changing the “Women Don’t Apply” Narrative for Women Sport Coaches”
In Part I of this series I outlined why the way women sport coaches are framed is often problematic. For example there are many popular narratives about why the percentage of women coaches remains stagnant, and many of them blame women. When women are blamed, the system AROUND the women does not have to change. …
Continue reading “Part II: Changing the Narrative for Women Sport Coaches”
The under representation of women coaches within the institution of sport has been framed in many ways–from a historic decline since the passage of Title IX, to scarcity, to the more current narrative of stagnation. OK if you are new to this topic, let me give you the data to get you up to speed. …
Continue reading “Changing the Narrative for Women Sport Coaches: Part I”
To celebrate National Girls & Women in Sport Day, the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport (where I am the co-director) released its annual Women in College Coaching Report Card. Produced in collaboration with the Alliance of Women Coaches, the report documents the percentage of women in head coaching positions at …
Here is a different twist on March Madness 2015. It is pure Madness! (in a good way) that: the ESPN coverage of the NCAA D-I women’s basketball tournament is well produced so that we can actually SEE these amazing female athletes and their coaches a majority of the head coaches of women’s basketball are women. …
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Hear my radio interview with Jim Dubois of Access Minnesota, as we discuss issues related to the decline of in the percent of women in coaching, the Report Card on College Women Coaches, coaching career pathways, and a host of other issues related to women in the coaching profession. To hear the interview, click here.
Did you know that in the 40+ years after the passage of Title IX, female sport participation is at an all-time high but the percentage of women coaching women at the collegiate level has declined from 90+% in 1974 to near an all-time low today of 40%? While the number of collegiate coaching opportunities is …
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