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During the 2021-22 school year, 399 Black women coached women’s NCAA sports teams in Divisions I, II and III compared with 3,760 white women and 5,236 white men. In women’s NCAA basketball, a sport ...
In women's NCAA basketball, a sport made up of 30% Black athletes, Black women made up 12% of head coaches across all divisions during the 2021-22 season, according to the NCAA's demographics ...
South Carolina women’s basketball coach Dawn Staley holds net after winning 2022 NCAA National Championship in Minneapolis. (Photo credit: Nagashia Jackson for rolling out) Black women are once ...
Interest in women’s basketball has skyrocketed in recent years. In 2024, the WNBA reported a record-breaking season “with an ...
Kenny Brooks and Dawn Staley headline the 2023 women's Final Four as the second Black coach duo to appear in the semifinals, pioneering excellence and diversity.
The rise of Dawn Staley to the top of women’s college basketball among head coaches is also notable as she became just the ...
In 1999, Carolyn Peck made history when she became the first Black woman to win an NCAA Division I basketball championship as a head coach. Leading Purdue University’s women’s basketball team ...
Priscilla Loomis, a 2016 Olympic high jumper who is Black, said she became a coach to provide kids that look like her the representation the sport has lacked. NCAA track and field numbers mirrored ...
In women’s NCAA basketball, a sport made up of 30% Black athletes, Black women made up 12% of head coaches across all divisions during the 2021-22 season, according to the NCAA’s demographics ...
Black female representation in the coaching and sports administrative ranks has often existed on a minute scale. The number of women coaching women’s sports has increased in the past decade ...