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By Erin McMahon
\n<\/strong>Medill Reports<\/em>
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When Julianne Sitch started her soccer career, she played on an all-boys team in Oswego, Illinois, for two years. At 5 years old, being the only girl on the field never bothered her. Sitch just wanted to play and enjoy the competitive nature of the game, and the Oswego Park District gave her that opportunity. But in recent months, playing with a boys soccer team has come full circle for Sitch. On April 20, she was announced as the new head coach of the University of Chicago men\u2019s soccer team.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sitch is now the second woman to hold a head coaching position with an NCAA men\u2019s soccer team. Kim Wyant, who is at the helm of the New York University men\u2019s team, became the first in 2015. Sitch said being able to speak to Wyant and having her to look up to made the opportunity to coach on the men\u2019s side more believable for her.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe more we can see it, the more we can envision women in these (coaching) positions,\u201d Sitch said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Title IX, which prohibits sex-based discrimination within federally funded institutions and programs, will celebrate its 50th anniversary in June. Within the past year, more women have been assuming coaching roles on men\u2019s professional teams. The NFL has 12 women on staff across eight different teams, the NBA has seven women all coaching for different teams, and Major and Minor League Baseball employs 11 women with on-field coaching positions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But as changes are slowly being made on the professional level, the number of female coaches for men\u2019s teams at the collegiate level still looks bleak. According to the NCAA\u2019s <\/span>45 Years of Title IX<\/span><\/a> report, only 4.6% of head coaching positions across all divisions of men\u2019s teams in the NCAA are held by women<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So what will it take to see more female coaches in men\u2019s sports?<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat stereotypical idea of a female (not) being able to lead a bunch of men still needs to be broken down,\u201d Wyant said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When NYU men\u2019s head soccer coach Joe Behan resigned two weeks into the season in 2015 due to family health complications, Wyant said she was at the right place at the right time when she stepped in as interim head coach. But, it wasn\u2019t just timing that landed Wyant her permanent position with the team.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want people to walk around thinking that I was just given the job at NYU because I\u2019m a female,\u201d Wyant said. \u201cI earned this position through my life\u2019s work of coaching and my resume.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Hiring a female head coach for a men\u2019s team wasn\u2019t a novelty for an institution like NYU. According to the school\u2019s 2018 <\/span>university data report<\/span><\/a>, 45% of its athletic and education staff is made up of women, which includes Janice Quinn, the senior associate director of athletics who made the executive decision to hire Wyant.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But this isn\u2019t the norm at other NCAA schools.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere are not enough women who are in leadership roles at universities that can offer a different perspective on the hiring practices,\u201d Wyant said. \u201cAnd that applies to diversity as well.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Angie Torain at U. of C. is part of the 25% of females who hold athletic director positions across all three divisions of the NCAA. She attributes some of the ongoing issues of female representation to women thinking they\u2019re not good enough to get these male-dominated positions.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s encouraging women when they see a position that they think they can do to go for it,\u201d Torain said. \u201cWe were lucky with Julianne.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

With some motivation from her predecessor, Mike McGrath, Sitch said she went with a \u201cwhy not?\u201d mentality when she applied for her current position. Now at the forefront of men\u2019s soccer at U. of C., she wants to show people coaching is about coaching and not the stigmatized capabilities of a certain gender.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, it doesn\u2019t make a difference if it\u2019s men or women, I just want to get the best out of these athletes, help them pursue their dreams and goals, and my culture for that doesn\u2019t change,\u201d Sitch said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Women like Torain and Sitch are making progress for women in sports, but men still occupy the majority of high-level athletic staff positions. Hence, the reality: It\u2019s up to men to hire more diverse coaches. Janet Rayfield, head coach of women\u2019s soccer at the University of Illinois and a good friend of Sitch\u2019s, said the most movement for women in sports will likely result from their influence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cProgress is really made when people of the traditional majority start to make decisions that value the input of underrepresented groups,\u201d Rayfield said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But gender controversy doesn\u2019t end when the hire is made. Peg Rees, a former triple-sport athlete at the University of Oregon, said women who do get the opportunity to occupy coaching positions on a men\u2019s team are consistently held to a higher standard. Having sat on the university committee to implement Title IX, she said though more opportunities are available now, the double standard for women is still apparent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThose very few women who are coaching men in sport have to be highly successful, more successful than their male counterparts at their same level,\u201d Rees said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Just three weeks into training, Sitch said she is excited to see what the team can achieve this year. Feeling secure with all the experience she\u2019s had leading up to this new coaching job, she said she\u2019s more concerned about setting an example for young women to go for any job they want.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI hope with the likes of Kim Wyant and myself, sports can be a place where women can continue to inspire each other,\u201d Sitch said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Erin McMahon is a graduate student at Medill. You can follow her on Twitter\u00a0@erinamcmahon<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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