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SPORTS Thursday 23 March 2023
Study: Most women’s NCAA teams are still coached by men

By STEVE MEGARGEE 80.6% white head coaches
AP Sports Writer in Division I, 84.5% in Divi-
Women comprised less sion II and 88.1% in Division
than half the head coach- III. Those figures represent
ing positions and just over slight decreases in all three
half of the assistant coach- divisions for both men’s and
ing spots for women’s col- women’s teams.
lege teams in the 2021-22 In all three divisions, white
school year, according to people made up 70.6%
a diversity study released of the men’s basketball
Wednesday. head coaches, 86.8% of
Women held just 42% of the football head coaches
head coaching positions and 92.8% of the baseball
of women’s teams in NCAA head coaches. Lapchick
Division I a slight increase noted that the lack of ra-
from the previous season cial and gender diversity
as well as 35.6% in Division within the athletic director
II and 43.8% in Division III. ranks could play a part in
For all three divisions com- the lack of diversity among
bined, women filled 41.2% coaches overall, since ath-
of head coaching posi- letic directors do much of
tions and 50.3% of assis- South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley communicates with an official in the second half of a the hiring. “I’m not saying
tant coaching positions for first-round college basketball game against Norfolk State in the NCAA Tournament, Friday, March they’re all racist or sexist,”
women’s teams. 17, 2023, in Columbia, S.C. Lapchick said. “I’m just say-
The annual report by the Associated Press ing that the likelihood is
University of Central Flori- that nearly 60% of women’s programs dropped from 13 the percentages of Black they’re going to continue
da’s Institute for Diversity teams are coached by to 10 in 2022, with only six of head coaches of men’s to move within the circles
and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) men 50 years after the pas- them in Power Five confer- teams between the 2020- that they’ve moved in, and
gave schools a “C” for sage of Title IX,” Lapchick ences (Duke, Missouri, Pitts- 21 school year to the 2021- that’s overwhelmingly go-
overall racial and gender said, referring to the federal burgh, Vanderbilt, Virginia 22 school year 9.9% in Di- ing to be white men.”
hiring practices. But TIDES law best known for its role in and Washington). vision I (up from 9%), 6.6% Almost 25% of Division I
director and report author gender equity in athletics From a racial hiring and in Division II (up from 6.2%) men’s basketball head
Richard Lapchick called and preventing sexual ha- employment standpoint and 6.3% in Division III (up coaches were Black, up
the representation of wom- rassment on campuses. for coaches, white people from 5.9%). White people from 24.3% in 2020-21 but
en coaches in women’s A month earlier, a sepa- continue to fill the vast ma- hold 84.1% of the men’s short of the record high
sports “the most depressing rate TIDES report showed jority of head coaching po- head coaching positions of 25.2% in 2005-06. Black
statistic that we report ev- that the number of women sitions at all levels. in Division I, 85.2% in Divi- student-athletes made up
ery year.” “It doesn’t even working as athletic directors But Wednesday’s report sion II and 89% in Division 52.4% of the Division I men’s
make any sense to me, at Football Bowl Subdivision did note slight increases in III. For women’s teams, it’s basketball rosters. q

NHL players: Crosby most complete; McDavid tops for clutch

By JOHN WAWROW Boston’s Patrice Bergeron, came to McDavid who is In other categories, for the ers’ Chris Kreider (14.6%) as
AP Hockey Writer with 18.8% of the vote, and running away with the NHL second straight year, Tam- the player who affects the
Pittsburgh Penguins cap- Florida’s Aleksander Barkov points race earning 59.3% pa Bay’s Andrei Vasilevskiy game most around the net.
tain Sidney Crosby contin- (17.1%), finished in the top of the vote in who players gained 314 votes as be- Barkov, a seven-time 20-
ues being regarded by his three for a fourth straight would want next to them ing the preferred choice goal scorer, was regarded
peers as the NHL’s most year, with McDavid ranking in a must-win situation, with among players on who as the league’s most un-
complete player, though fourth. Crosby finishing second they would want in net in derrated player.
he takes a backseat to Ed- The tables turned when it (11%). a must-win situation. Colo- For a second straight year,
monton’s Connor McDavid rado’s Cale Makar, last Boston’s Brad Marchand
in having the best chance year’s Norris Trophy winner, was voted as the person
to produce in the clutch. was the runaway leader as players least want to face,
Those are among the find- top defenseman, earning but want on their team.
ings in the National Hockey nearly 64% of the vote, with As for the NHL’s best ice sur-
League Players’ Associa- Tampa Bay’s Victor Hed- face, Montreal’s Bell Centre
tion releasing its sixth annu- man second (11%). won out for a fifth time with
al and eighth overall survey Edmonton’s Leon Drai- 35% of the vote, followed
of players on Wednesday. saitl was regarded as the by Edmonton (14.7%), Win-
Overall, 625 players par- NHL’s best passer. Newly nipeg (10.3%), Minnesota
ticipated in answering 14 acquired New York Rang- (8.6%) and Vegas (6%).
questions. ers forward Patrick Kane And there was a split re-
Crosby, a two-time regu- finished second in the best garding which current or
lar-season and two-time passer category, while be- former women’s players
playoff MVP, earned just ing voted as the league’s that NHLers would like to
over 30% of the vote in the New York Rangers goaltender Igor Shesterkin, right, and Niko top stickhandler for a third play alongside, with Can-
most complete player cat- Mikkola, left, protect their net from Pittsburgh Penguins’ Sidney straight year. ada’s Marie-Philip Poulin
egory which he’s now won Crosby (87) during the third period of an NHL hockey game, Dallas Stars veteran Joe gaining 27.9% of the vote,
or shared first place for a Saturday, March 18, 2023, in New York. Pavelski, with 21.4% of the ahead of American Hilary
fourth consecutive year. Associated Press vote, beat out the Rang- Knight (20.5%).q