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Gormy Cuss

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3. But then there's swimming, volleyball, basketball, gymnastics, skating, skiing, and many others

Reply to Drale (Reply #1)

Tue Jul 31, 2012, 10:49 AM

Jul 2012

where both men and women have played the game for eons yet women coaches for men's teams are rare while men coaching women is still common. There are women coaches for some individual men in sports like skating but women don't seem to be rising to the top of the ranks in collegiate, Olympic, or professional sports for men.

I wonder if there are statistics available on this. I'd be curious to see how frequently women are coaching men's teams.

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Watching the olympics, I started thinking... [View all] Jamaal510 Jul 2012 OP

Since coach's are mainly people connected to the game for a long time Drale Jul 2012 #1

But then there's swimming, volleyball, basketball, gymnastics, skating, skiing, and many others Gormy Cuss Jul 2012 #3

Soccer is the only sport I can see that maybe happening with obamanut2012 Jul 2012 #2

Played soccer 7 years... Neoma Aug 2012 #4