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Women’s names are not often the first
entioned when discussing possible can
. .dates for coaching and administrative
sitions.
"When men are in charge, they are
•iclined to talk to their own friends, and
they are inclined to he men,” Hewlett
ud. “So when you have a position open,
you’re in.”
Social factors also contribute to the
problem. Many women don't want to
move if it would force their husbands to
relocate and find jobs, Howlett said She
said women tend to take fewer risks than
men and don’t go after the jobs.
More than 50 percent of the NCAA
coaches of women’s teams are men. At
Indiana U.. six of the eight female sports
have male coaches.
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exhausted her college eligibility? Any
type of job she wants, but not one neces
sarily related to athletics, said the coach
's of women’s basketball and volleyball
at U. of Florida.
Beverly Kearney, U. of Florida’s
women’s track and field coach tells her
players to concentrate on their educa
tion. “Unless you’re an All-American
coming out of college, your career is basi -
ally over.”
Kearney said there are a lack of role
models for female athletes, and that
iffects the number of women who pursue
areers in coaching and teaching sports.
Ann Marie Lawler, U. of Florida’s
assistant athletic director for women’s
sports, agrees. Tve tried to encourage
iur female athletes to consider coaching
is an alternative,” Lawler said
Five of the 13 head coaches at U of
Florida are women. They make between
' 13- and 842,000 a year The range for
male coaches at U. of Florida is between
- 33- and $100,000 a year.
Nationally, the percentage of female to
male coaches is even lower. NCAA
■'Cords show that only 18 percent of the
ation’s head coaches are women
Sports Illustrated recently reported
hat since 1972 the number of women
oaching women’s sports has dropped
' rom 90 to 48 percent, and more than 30
percent of the women’s athletic pro
grams have no female administrators
There is only one woman in Division I
vho coaches a men’s varsity team.
Higginbottom, who played a year in
he ill-fated women’s basketball league
with the Nebraska Wranglers, believes
the league will make a comeback.
But Lyra Vance, former Gator volley
ball star, who played volleyball for the
New York Liberties during the 1987-88
season, says the real world of profession
al sports was tough.
“There’s not enough support from the
crowds, financially, to make it work. And
there’s a lot of politics involved.”
Vance traveled with the team during
its four-month, 40-match season. At 22,
she was the youngest member on a team
where the average age was 33.
Living conditions matched the players'
salaries. The starting players make
between $5,000-56,000 for the season
“The organization just wasn't there,"
Vance said. “1 guess it’s tough in women s
sports. They need a lot of money to do it
nght.
“1 didn't know what going to the pros
was all about,” she said. “It's not all it's
cut out to be.”
“I feel that as we're teaching these
young ladies, there are going to be open
mgs for them,' said Isabella Hutchison,
Indiana l ’ associate athletic director and
director of women’s athletics
"You just can't get this attitude that it's
a male world, I’m not going to have the
"And maybe you can’t lx' in Division 1
nght of!’ You need to go to Division II or
Division 111 schools to get your expen
ence,” Hutchison said
Hut women are doing well in the pn
vate sector in fitness and health club
management, said James Brown, fonner
“You just can’t got this attitude that it’s a male world. I’m not going to
have the chance. If you’re quality, you’re going to get that chance,"
— Isabella Hutchison.
IU Director of Women’s Athletics.
chance.
“If you're quality, you're going to get
that chance," she said. “But you also have
to come up the ranks.
“You just can't pop right out of playing
basketball and expect to get a head coach
ing position.
II gymnastics coach and associate pro
lessor of physical education. Brown
teaches a class in interscholastic athletic
programs
After 1972, when Congress passed
Title IX. which prohibited discrimination
in education, the number of women’s
sports available increased, Brown said
Women's sports were regulatt'd from
1972 to 1982 by the Association for
Intercollegiate Athletics for Women
Since the demise of the A1AW and the
overseeing of women's athletics by the
N('AA, many college men's and women's
programs merged.
Although Hewlett does not see a rela
tionship between that and the decline of
women administrators, Hutchison does
“Under the A1AW, you had women ath
letic directors, and they ran the women’s
programs and had all the input in tin1
rules and regulations of women’s atlilet
ics," Hutchison said.
When it merged with the NCAA,
women’s voices were not heard for rules
per se, because then the mule athletic
directors had the power, she said.
The NCAA's financial stability lias
helped women's athletics, while the
AIAW was short of funds
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we’re thinking small.
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