The Revolutionary Idea Of Women Coaching Men's Teams
LatestApparently, just because you can do, it doesn’t mean you can teach. Even in sports like hockey, where women have played with men at the professional level, female coaches are as rare as Kardashians who don’t make millions marrying basketball players on television. In fact, it wasn’t until 2009 that Nancy Lieberman, a former professional player herself, became the first woman to coach an NBA team (the Texas Legends, part of the NBA development league). According to Sonya Cuthbert, a reporter for the Calgary Herald, utilizing female coaches is just good business, seeing as women actually make pretty good coaches. Who knew! She says, “The most glorified coaches in college and high school basketball are women. They have more wins than any male coach of either men’s or women’s teams.” So why aren’t more of these winning coaches doing their thing at the professional level?