LaVoi quoted on female representation in collegiate sports in NCAA’s Champion magazine

Nicole LaVoi, Ph.D., lecturer in the School of Kinesiology and co-director of the Tucker Center, is one of a number of noted scholars featured in the Winter 2017 edition of the online NCAA publication, Champion magazine. The feature, “Where Are the Women?”, explores the continuing lack of female representation among coaches in collegiate sports. The article notes, “Female representation among coaches is highest at the most entry level of positions — graduate assistants, volunteer assistants — but drops as the level of the position rises. About half of paid assistant coaches for women’s teams are women, roughly 10 percent higher than the number of head coaches.”

“As the position becomes more visible and more powerful and more lucrative, we have fewer females,” says Nicole LaVoi, co-director of the Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport and author of the book, Women in Sports Coaching. “They’re dropping out of the pipeline. And to me, that’s troubling.”

Read the full article here.