A study was recently conducted about the perceived gender-equity barriers in college coaching and administration. In this study, which will be available on the NCAA website in November, it was found that 51.7 percent of female student-athletes said they would prefer their coach to be a male, with only 40.7 percent preferring their coach to [...]
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Do female athletes prefer male coaches?
Posted in College, Title IX, tagged Brooklyn College, Deborah Rhode, female coaches, gender equity, Linda Jean Carpenter, Marcia Greenberger, Myles Brand, National Women's Law Center, NCAA, R. Vivian Acosta, Stanford University, Tara VanDerVeer, Title IX, WNBA, Women in Intercollegiate Sport on October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
NCAA 2008 Woman of the Year
Posted in Basketball, College, Swimming, tagged Lady Vols, Michelle Coombs, National Champion, NCAA, Nkolika "Nicky" Anosike, Pat Summit, SEC, SUNY New Paltz, Tennesse, Woman of the Year, women's basketball on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday night in Indianapolis the NCAA announced Nkolika “Nicky” Anosike 2008 Woman of the Year. Anosike led the Lady Vols of Tennessee to back-to-back Women’s Basketball National Championships. Being an avid watcher of the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament and regular season play, I could not be happier with the NCAA’s decision! Not only is Anosike [...]
Women Fight for the Right to Wrestle
Posted in Title IX, Wrestling, tagged Joey's Wrestling Room, Menlo College, Missouri Baptist University, NCAA, Oklahoma City University, Olympics, Pretty Tough, Title IX, United States Girls Wrestling Association, Women Wrestling on October 19, 2008 | 17 Comments »
I came across this interesting article in the New York Times. It turns out wrestling has been a growing sport for women for the last twenty years. Girls are walking out onto the mat everyday across America, standing up, and utilizing their right to wrestle. According to the article, Women Want to Wrestle; Small Colleges [...]
Laura Delaney hosts NCAA Division III Women’s Soccer blog
Posted in From the blogosphere, Soccer, Sports Journalism, tagged bog, Divisin III soccer, Laura Delaney, Montclair State, NCAA, NCAA Division III, NCAA student athlete blogs, Steven's Tech, Swarthmore, TCNJ, The College of New Jersey, Women's Soccer on October 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I must say – it’s exciting when you browse through the NCAA’s student-athlete blogs and come across an NCAA Division III blog from an athlete at your former college. I’m so glad to see Laura Delaney, the captain of the women’s soccer team at The College of New Jersey posting her thoughts on this season [...]
Oct. 3 deadline for players to register for WPS draft
Posted in Famous Women in Sports, Soccer, tagged Christine Rampone, Division I Athletes, draft, Monmouth University, NCAA, Prospective Player Form, Women's Professional Soccer, WPS, WPS general draft on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Want to play professional women’s soccer? You have until 8pm ET (5pm PT) on Friday, October 3 to register to be listed on the draft board for the WPS General Draft, taking place on Monday, October 6, 2008. To register, players must complete the Prospective Player Form found on the WPS website, here. I think [...]
Diversity in College Sports: WSF Report is “most accurate description to date”
Posted in From the blogosphere, Marketing and Advertising, Sports Headlines, Sports Journalism, Sports Programs, tagged athletic programs, athletics, Basketball, college sports diversity, color, diversity, enrollment management strategies, football, health care, high school sports, intercollegiate athletics, international students, Market Watch, men's college sports, NCAA, NCAA Division I-A, participation levels, spending, sports, sports participation, women on September 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Women’s Sports Foundation came out with an incredibly interesting report yesterday, which could be the most accurate description of college sports’ participation patterns to date. The report even made The Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch, indicating its overall importance to society. While more women are participating in recent years than ever, the report, entitled [...]
Sportsmanship and Moral Judgment
Posted in Sportsmanship, tagged athlete, College, female, moral judgement, NCAA, NCAA rules, New York Times, sports, Sportsmanship, YouTube on May 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sportsmanship extends far beyond the “man” part of the word. Women across the globe now participate in sports in alarming numbers. In America alone, more than 40,000 student-athletes participate in NCAA championship competition each year, and that’s just at the collegiate level. I don’t even know if the numbers exist for high school athletic participation, [...]
Athletes: The Stress of College Decisions
Posted in College, tagged AAU, AAU tournaments, applications, Basketball, blue chip tournaments, challenges, college programs, Division I, Division II, Division III, film, high school athletics, NCAA, programs, sports, stress, tapes on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The process of finding a place for you spend the next four years of your life can be incredibly overwhelming for a 17-year-old. The late junior/early senior years of high school and accompanying college application process is very stressful. The demands they put on the kids to not only have “honor-level” grades and top-notch SAT [...]
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