Where are the female youth coaches?

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http://backofthenet.com/wpz/recruiti...occer-coaches/

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Isn't the answer to why there are so few excellent women Club coaches obvious? Just look in NE alone at colleges. Start a D1 - quite a few young women coaches with some pretty amazing backgrounds have stepped in over the past several years alone.

Clearly it's difficult for those coaches to coach both and most left club to do it. As you walk down in intensity from D1 to 2 to 3 to Preps there are more who dable in club, many having aspirations of higher level college HC spots. They get some intitial 'training' in club, hop on as an AC some place and move on up.

Having both college and club positions (and operating off-season camps) is quite common in mens soccer, why do you think that women's coaches specialize as you describe?

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Having both college and club positions (and operating off-season camps) is quite common in mens soccer, why do you think that women's coaches specialize as you describe?

Women have less ambition?
Women have fewer opportunities?
Women have more distractions?
Something else?
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Where are all the female pilots? I love when people bring sex to some profession and blame who is in charge of not hiring enough of one sex. What about there are more male coaches seek the profession?

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Where are all the female pilots? I love when people bring sex to some profession and blame who is in charge of not hiring enough of one sex. What about there are more male coaches seek the profession?

Where do most pilots come from. My guess would be the military which is predominately male. There are more female soccer players than males in this country. There is no reason why females are routinely marginalized in the coaching ranks. There absolutely needs to be an emphasis on hiring qualified female coaches IMO.

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Where do most pilots come from. My guess would be the military which is predominately male. There are more female soccer players than males in this country. There is no reason why females are routinely marginalized in the coaching ranks. There absolutely needs to be an emphasis on hiring qualified female coaches IMO.

Where are they? My club is looking for some good female coaches. The criteria is not just being female and wanting to coach. You have to know how to do it too. By the way some top coaches in the world never played the game or minimally played it. JMO

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Where are all the male:

Hair dressers
Lingerie models
secretaries
field hockey players
synchronized swimmers
etc

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Where do most pilots come from. My guess would be the military which is predominately male. There are more female soccer players than males in this country. There is no reason why females are routinely marginalized in the coaching ranks. There absolutely needs to be an emphasis on hiring qualified female coaches IMO.

If you randomly ask 100 female soccer players about their preference of having male or female as a coach, 80-85 will tell you male. I don't know why, but it is true. Maybe they know their own species too well?

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If you randomly ask 100 female soccer players about their preference of having male or female as a coach, 80-85 will tell you male. I don't know why, but it is true. Maybe they know their own species too well?

I think there may not be a large enough dataset to draw any conclusions.

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I don't know why there are fewer women coaching. Certainly part of it is a cultural thing, i.e. certain ethnic/national groups are not supportive of women being involved in soccer, either playing or coaching.

In my daughter's case, she had many coaches mostly men, but there were some women along the way. The capability of the coaches, men and women, varied greatly. She had one male coach and one female coach over her span playing who got her excited to practice and play.

I know that that the sex of the coach did not matter to her.

The exceptional woman who coached her did an excellent job of planning practices so that there was little idle time and the drills built in a progression through out practice and the season. As a coach I learned a great deal from watching her practices. She was in her late 20's and recently married. She stayed coaching through her pregnancy and for a few months after her child was born (through the end of the team's U18 season) and then retired to spend more time with her family.

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I don't know why there are fewer women coaching. Certainly part of it is a cultural thing, i.e. certain ethnic/national groups are not supportive of women being involved in soccer, either playing or coaching.

In my daughter's case, she had many coaches mostly men, but there were some women along the way. The capability of the coaches, men and women, varied greatly. She had one male coach and one female coach over her span playing who got her excited to practice and play.

I know that that the sex of the coach did not matter to her.

The exceptional woman who coached her did an excellent job of planning practices so that there was little idle time and the drills built in a progression through out practice and the season. As a coach I learned a great deal from watching her practices. She was in her late 20's and recently married. She stayed coaching through her pregnancy and for a few months after her child was born (through the end of the team's U18 season) and then retired to spend more time with her family.

KD and JB were great and my daughters loved playing for both of them If they ever come back to NE I hope they team up and start a club!