A 2012 article by Tucker Center director and School of Kinesiology senior lecturer Nicole M. LaVoi, PhD, was noted via Twitter as the most-cited article in the Sports Coaching Review journal. “Barriers and supports for female coaches: an ecological model” by LaVoi and then-doctoral student Julia Dutove (Grande Prairie Regional College, Alberta) has been cited 37 times since publication in August of 2012.
Tucker Center director and School of Kinesiology senior lecturer Nicole M. LaVoi, PhD, is quoted in a New York Times article, “With Women’s Hockey in Flux, League Says It Will Play in 2021.” With the NWHL announcing it would push back its sixth season to begin in January of next year, LaVoi said, “To protect the health of the players, I think that’s never a bad decision.”
In this episode of “Tucker Center Talks” [S2E13], Nicole M. LaVoi, Ph.D., senior lecturer in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Tucker Center, talks with the summer Tucker Team which consists of the Summer Gender Equity Interns Sam Benzing, Cecilia Kaufmann, Paige Richmond, Greta Sirek, and this year’s Pam Borton Fellow for the Promotion of Girls & Women in Sport Leadership, Courtney Boucher. We talk about all the projects they have been working on this summer, what they have learned, and advice they give to future interns. Listen to the podcast…
“Tucker Center Talks” is a co-production of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport and WiSP Sports.
In this episode of “Tucker Center Talks” [S2E12], Nicole M. LaVoi, Ph.D., senior lecturer in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Tucker Center, talks with two black women in academia, Drs. Joyce Olushola Ogunrinde (University of Houston) and Akilah Carter-Francique (San Jose State University) to discuss their work as scholars, advocates, activists and mentors. Listen to the podcast…
“Tucker Center Talks” is a co-production of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport and WiSP Sports.
Mary Jo Kane, Ph.D., director emerita of the Tucker Center and professor emerita in the School of Kinesiology, is quoted in the Eastern Iowa Gazette article, “Advocates: Double Standard in Ousters of Chris Doyle and Tracey Griesbaum.” Kane’s comments come amid accusations of a double standard as Doyle, former University of Iowa executive director of football and head strength and conditioning coach, and Griesbaum, former University of Iowa field hockey coach, were both released for bullying players but received very different payouts.
Mary Jo Kane, Ph.D., director emerita of the Tucker Center and professor emerita in the School of Kinesiology, comments in an article from the Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, “Women’s Professional Sports Leagues Utilize Social Media to Continue Pre-pandemic Growth.” Kane comments on media gatekeepers who are not anxious to give up their power.
Tucker Center director and School of Kinesiology senior lecturer Nicole M. LaVoi, PhD, is a discussant on the “Engaging Girls” panel at the Play Like a Champion Today
Sports Leadership Conference on Wednesday, June 24. LaVoi and her fellow panelists—Ramona Cox, Associate Athletic Director with Detroit Police Athletic League (PAL), and Meghan Morgan, Executive Director of Girls in the Game—discuss the importance of growing female participation as athletes and coaches, and what organizations can do in their own communities. The overall theme of the conference is “Kinship Through Sports: GROWing a Community of Hope.”
In this episode of “Tucker Center Talks” [S2E11], Nicole M. LaVoi, Ph.D., senior lecturer in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Tucker Center, talks to her new colleague and fellow college tennis player Dr. Dunja Antunovic, who will join her as a new assistant professor in the Tucker Center in the fall of 2020. Antunovic is currently finishing out her stint as an assistant professor of Sports Communication at the Charley Steiner School of Sports Communication at Bradley University. LaVoi and Antunovic discuss her areas of research around representation of women in sports media, women in sport journalism and Antunovic’s forthcoming new book, co-authored with TC affiliated scholar Dr. Cheryl Cooky, which in part covers narratives of progress and failure for women’s sport. The podcast ends with three “sticky” ideas from Antunovic’s research. Listen to the podcast…
“Tucker Center Talks” is a co-production of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport and WiSP Sports.
Mary Jo Kane, Ph.D., director emerita of the Tucker Center, was interviewed for the ABC News/KNEB article, “NFL’s lack of diverse leadership raises questions about commissioner’s video message.” Kane commented on the role of white privilege and unconscious bias in addressing racial inequities for NFL hiring practices.
Tucker Center affiliated scholar Sarah Leberman, Ph.D. (Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand) was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to women, sport and tertiary education.
In this episode of “Tucker Center Talks” [S2E10], Nicole M. LaVoi, Ph.D., director of the Tucker Center, talks with two colleagues, Dr. Leanne Norman, Carnegie School of Sport at Leeds Beckett University in the UK, and Dr. Donna deHaan, Faculty of Health, Nutrition and Sport, at The Hague University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. They discuss their collective work related to changing the system of sport to be more gender inclusive and favorable for women coaches, including work with UEFA and interviews done with elite women soccer coaches from around the world. Listen to the podcast…
In this episode of “Tucker Center Talks” [S2E9], Nicole M. LaVoi, Ph.D., director of the Tucker Center, talks to Dr. Elizabeth Daniels, an associate professor of psychology at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, and a Tucker Center affiliated scholar. They discuss the research in which Elizabeth examines the effects of sexualized and objectified media images of females, particularly female athletes, on young girls, as well as the practical implications and applied elements of her work. Spoiler alert: sex does not sell women’s sport. Listen to the podcast…
Tucker Center director and School of Kinesiology senior lecturer Nicole M. LaVoi, PhD, along with Tucker Center affiliated scholars Dr. Sarah Leberman (Massey University) and Dr. Sally Shaw (University of Otago), have published an online first article, “As sport resumes after lockdown, it’s time to level the playing field for women and girls,” in The Conversation. The article advocates for changes in rebuilding sports to design in equity.
In this episode of “Tucker Center Talks” [S2E8], Nicole M. LaVoi, Ph.D., director of the Tucker Center, converses with TC Affiliated Scholar Daheia J. Barr-Anderson, PhD, associate professor in the U of M’s School of Kinesiology and director of the Behavioral Physical Activity Laboratory (BPAL). Barr-Anderson’s research interests include physical activity, sedentary behaviors, and obesity prevention in children and adolescents. LaVoi and Barr-Anderson talk candidly about Barr-Anderson’s community-based physical activity interventions with African American mothers and daughters, the power of yoga, and her dive into the effects of racism and microaggressions on the health of African American women.
Mary Jo Kane, Ph.D., professor in the School of Kinesiology and director emerita of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, is quoted in a New York Times article, “Sports Begin to Reawaken in a Changed World.” Kane comments on how deeply embedded sports are in our society.
In this episode of “Tucker Center Talks” [S2E7], Nicole M. LaVoi, Ph.D., director of the Tucker Center, talks with two TC Affiliated Scholars from New Zealand, Drs. Sarah Leberman (Massey University) and Sally Shaw (University of Otago). The trio discusses the opportunities that can arise for gender equity in sport for girls and women, and what individuals and organizations can do to achieve equity.
Tucker Center director and School of Kinesiology senior lecturer Nicole M. LaVoi, PhD, along with Amanda Hood (University of Colorado) and Tucker Center affiliated scholars Elizabeth Daniels (University of Colorado) and Cheryl Cooky (Purdue), have published an online first article, “Sexualized and Athletic: Viewers’ Attitudes toward Sexualized Performance Images of Female Athletes,” in Sex Roles, a leading feminist journal publishing original research articles and theoretical papers concerned with the underlying processes and consequences of gender role socialization perceptions and attitudes. The authors found that “sexualized performance athletes were rated more positively than sexualized athletes, but less positively than sport performance athletes. These results have implications for advocacy efforts calling for more media coverage in which women are depicted as athletes rather than as sexual objects.”
In this episode of “Tucker Center Talks” [S2E6], Nicole M. LaVoi, Ph.D., summarizes data and key findings in the Women in College Coaching Report Card with more depth and explains why keeping the conversation about women in sport leadership on the front burner matters.
Erin Morris, former Tucker Center Summer Intern, has been awarded the Sport Management Education Journal editorial board’s Sport Management Education Journal Best Paper Award for 2019 for her and her colleagues’ contribution, “You Study Like a Girl: Experiences of Female Sport Management Students.” This award recognizes the best articles published in the journal and recognizes the finalists for their scholarship and commitment to the development of the body of knowledge in sport management education and pedagogy. Morris is currently an assistant professor of sport management at SUNY Cortland.
The Tucker Center‘s newly released “Head coaches of women’s collegiate teams: A report on select NCAA Division-I institutions, 2019-20” and author, Tucker Center director and School of Kinesiology senior lecturer Nicole M. LaVoi, PhD, are cited in an April 1 MNDaily article, “University of Minnesota ranks among the highest in hiring women’s head coaches.” Minnesota has been given a “B” grade every year since the Tucker Center created its report eight years ago. Gophers head women’s soccer coach Stefanie Golan and Gophers women’s head baseball coach Lindsay Whalen are quoted.
