Athletics Director’s Misses & Bull’s-eyes: Capitalizing on Targets of Opportunities to Hire Women Coaches of Women’s Teams at Select D-I Institutions
2019-06
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Athletics Director’s Misses & Bull’s-eyes: Capitalizing on Targets of Opportunities to Hire Women Coaches of Women’s Teams at Select D-I Institutions
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The number of women head coaches of women’s teams at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division-I level has been well documented and remained stagnant at approximately 42% for years (Acosta & Carpenter, 2014; LaVoi, 2013; 2014; 2015; 2016; 2017). The role of the athletics director within the athletic department is crucial in understanding why this stagnation exists as they ultimately are responsible for making key hiring decisions (Sartore & Cunningham, 2007; Wilson, Gilbert, Gilbert, & Sailor, 2009). This descriptive longitudinal study aims to quantitatively examine the hiring behaviors of individual athletics directors and institutions at select NCAA Division-I schools. Institutions (n=86) and athletics directors (n=115) were graded based on how often they have (or have not) capitalized on hiring a woman to fill a vacant head coaching position for a women’s team. The ultimate goal of this study is to continue and extend the mission of the Women’s College Coaches Report Card (LaVoi, 2013; 2014; 2015; 2016; 2017; 2018) and to use the data to hold decision makers accountable and reverse the current stagnation in the percentage of women head coaches of women’s teams.
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University of Minnesota M.S. thesis. June 2019. Major: Kinesiology. Advisor: Nicole LaVoi. 1 computer file (PDF); v, 57 pages.
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Boucher, Courtney. (2019). Athletics Director’s Misses & Bull’s-eyes: Capitalizing on Targets of Opportunities to Hire Women Coaches of Women’s Teams at Select D-I Institutions. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/206711.
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