Women in Coaching: NSCAA Women's Committee Algarve Cup Symposium

Monday, March 17, 2008

NSCAA Women's Committee Algarve Cup Symposium

Due to the wonderful generosity of one of our members, the NSCAA Women's Committee was able to sponsor Erin Lycan's trip to our Algarve Cup Symposium. Former US national team coach, April Heinrichs, and US national team psychologist, Dr. Colleen Hacker, presented to the group. Pia Sunhage appears to have stopped by as well.

We're looking forward to the full details, but until Erin puts together her write-up, here are a few pictures she took!

(There's Erin in the middle with April and Colleen.)

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In recent years, as the participation of girls and women in sport in America has skyrocketed. Women are now found in every aspect of sport, from the playing fields to the boardrooms, as administrators and officials, at the grassroots level through to high performance.

While coaching, too, has been affected by this explosion, women who choose to coach continue to face serious challenges, generally as a result of programs that, when designed, did not consider their unique needs. Other barriers include a lack of mentoring, the failure of sport organizations to spotlight female role models, miscommunication and a lack of access to information that is critical to professional success.

The purpose of this blog is to provide the women's soccer coaching community with timely, accurate and targeted information, and to help create a healthier and more positive environment for female coaches in America and around the world.

Our worldwide search turned up little information that is specific to the situation of the woman coach. One dominant concern is family life. Other pressing issues focus on negotiating equitable compensation and satisfactory contracts, breaking into the high performance echelon, establishing personal behavior guidelines, understanding employee and employer rights, and working effectively with a board of directors.

Women in Coaching intends to go another step further. By creating this interactive forum, we plan to provide hands-on, proactive suggestions and solutions that inform coaches, their employers, the parents of their athletes, and their clubs and associations. Above all, Women in Coaching is designed to help readers develop an understanding of the unique challenges female coaches face.

If, through this website, the challenges faced by women coaches are "put on the table" and workable solutions are offered, an important step will have been taken towards breaching the formidable barriers to getting ahead.

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Monday, March 17, 2008

NSCAA Women's Committee Algarve Cup Symposium

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