By Emma Foster, Swimming World College InternÂ
This January, the Buffalo Bills made the news with reports of their hiring the first full-time assistant female coach in the NFL. Kathryn Smith was brought on this year as a special teams coach for the Bills. Her hiring set off a wave of reactions, with many applauding the decision. Smith noted in a statement that the attention was “extraordinary” but that her focus was fixed on leading her team to victories.
Smith’s hiring, and the reactions it generated was noteworthy not merely for football fans. Smith’s contract comes in a string of appointments of women made in typically male-dominated sports across the country– with women finding jobs as full time NBA assistants, NFL officials, and Major League teams. This movement is a critical piece to bringing women into sports and creating space for them not only as athletes but as coaches, officials, and administrators.
In the swimming world, which is full of female athletic superstars such as Katie Ledecky, Missy Franklin, Simone Manuel, and many others, sometimes it is easy to forget about inequality that is often perpetuated within the sports world concerning opportunities for women. However, when it comes to the amount of women in college coaching positions, swimming can be doing better. In a 2015-2016 report released from the Alliance of Women Coaches and Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport, Swimming received an ‘F’, meaning that the number of female head coaches was less than 24 percent (swimming scored 15.6 percent) at NCAA Division I FBS schools.
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