Woman Coaching Boys V

[Coltdoggs]

Saw this in the Indy Star today.....Around Indy, it's all men coaching V....Heck, I don't even know where this city is at in Indiana...

Obviously you have men coaching girls V and you have men coaching NCAA-W...thought it was interesting.

Any of you V-Boys officials have any women coaches?

WOMAN BOYS V COACH

[stripes]

We had a lady coaching boys in Utah for a while at a very small (1A) school in the southern part of the state. I never worked for her, but I heard she did a very good job.

[CoachP]

Originally Posted by Coltdoggs

Saw this in the Indy Star today.....Around Indy, it's all men coaching V....Heck, I don't even know where this city is at in Indiana...

Obviously you have men coaching girls V and you have men coaching NCAA-W...thought it was interesting.

Any of you V-Boys officials have any women coaches?

WOMAN BOYS V COACH

Mid Michigan.
And she took her Boys V team to the State finals 2 years ago.

http://www.weyi.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=4777

[BktBallRef]

Originally Posted by Coltdoggs

Any of you V-Boys officials have any women coaches?

Yes. Not as unusual as many would think.

[WhistlesAndStripes]

A few years ago there was a woman coaching a boys 4A team in Alaska, and they won the state championship I believe.

[grunewar]

Originally Posted by BktBallRef

Yes. Not as unusual as many would think.

I think just because a few can come up with one current or past example in all their years of experience it doesn't make it less unusual. I would say percentage wise it is certainly not common.

In all the leagues I have ever reffed (or coached) I can only remember seeing one female doing a boys 13/15 age group....let alone at the BV level. I still believe it is unusual.

[Adam]

Probably varies by region, but I agree it's unusual. Not wrong or immoral, just unusual.

I've never seen it any level beyond YMCA.

That said, BktBallRef is probably right. I'm sure there are "many" who think there are only one or two of these situations in the country.

[Stat-Man]

I used to know an small college whose men's squad had a female coach.

We have a female boy's varsity coach in my area. She was the girls coach up until last year, and applied when the boys job was open to do both (since htis was before our big season switch), she was denied, sued, and won the chance to do both, or keep one and get settlement money. She chose both and passed on the money. But for 2 years now, she's done just the boys.

[fullor30]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Probably varies by region, but I agree it's unusual. Not wrong or immoral, just unusual.

I've never seen it any level beyond YMCA.

That said, BktBallRef is probably right. I'm sure there are "many" who think there are only one or two of these situations in the country.

Immoral???

[Back In The Saddle]

The boys sophomore coach at my local school is a woman.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by fullor30

Immoral???

Hey, I said it wasn't immoral.

[MichaelVA2000]

Originally Posted by fullor30

Immoral???

If the qualities of a good coach are there, why should gender be issue?

[Rita C]

The boys sophomore coach at my local school is a woman.


Hey - that's not nice. Oh wait - you mean for real. Sorry.

I've read the replies since my response. Interesting reading.

First, there is a difference between stupidity and ignorance. Ignorance can be fixed. That's all I'm trying to do.

The comment above, as read by me, has Mark facetiously saying that BITS is calling the male sophmore coach a woman. Young men and boys are the ones I have heard using the word "woman" as an insult. Maybe most of you, including Karin and rainmaker haven't heard it used. As a teacher of middle school and high school, I may have had more opportunity to hear it used as an insult than you all have. OR it may be an insult more common to this region. I don't know. But now you know it's out there. How you use that knowledge determines whether or not you are stupid. Not your sex.

I am sure that Mark meant it as a joke. I didn't think it was funny. There was a time I thought Polish jokes were funny. I'm sure that you all thought so also. We learned. That's all I ask now.

I never said anyone was stupid. Scrapper inferred that. In other words, he was being as overly sensitive as he accused me of being.

I don't expect to convince Scrapper or anyone else. I thought rainmaker made my point very well in her responses.

Rita

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Rita C

[B]
First, there is a difference between stupidity and ignorance. Ignorance can be fixed. That's all I'm trying to do.

Fixed to fall in line with your opinion of the way things ought to be?

[Rita C]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Fixed to fall in line with your opinion of the way things ought to be?

Of course.

I grew up in an area where there were many ethnicities. The only way we can know if we are offending is to know. That means the offended party has to say something.

You wouldn't be looking for ways to be offended, would you?

Rita