Scholastic Sports Analysis
High School & College Coach Overview
Overview
According to College Coaches Online, there are currently over 26,000 head coaches in the NCAA (Div I, II, & III) and NAIA
school and at Junior Colleges, while the National Directory of High School Coaches reports over 240,000 coaches in the US.
Collegiate Head Coaches, Per Sport
Women's
Men's
Sport
Coaches
Sport
Coaches
Basketball
Baseball
1,816
1,621
Bowling
Basketball
76
1,845
Cheerleading
Cross Country
772
1,280
Cross Country
Diving
1,382
262
Diving
Fencing
314
35
Fencing
Football
41
860
Field Hockey
Golf
265
1,192
Golf
Gymnastics
774
17
Gymnastics
Ice Hockey
82
148
Ice Hockey
Indoor Track
86
460
Indoor Track
Lacrosse
503
286
Lacrosse
Rifle
334
16
Rifle
Skiing
16
40
Rowing
Soccer
143
1,272
Skiing
Swimming
43
466
Soccer
Tennis
1,431
952
Softball
Track
1,609
966
Swimming
Volleyball
584
113
Tennis
Water Polo
1,143
78
Track
Wrestling
1,024
308
Volleyball
1,664
Water Polo
109
Total
14,211
Total
12,217
Source: CollegeCoachesOnline.com
Although the exact number of women’s coaches in the collegiate ranks is currently unknown, coaching women’s sport’s is
increasingly becoming a man’s world. At youth, club, high-school, college and pro levels, men are dominating head-coaching
jobs in women's sports.
Women's participation in sports is higher than ever, a success of the 1972 federal law known as Title IX. It prevents gender
discrimination in any educational program or activity receiving federal funding. Because of Title IX, female participation in
high-school sports has soared to more than 3 million. In college, it has grown from 16,000 in 1968 to more than 180,000 in
2005.
Yet the percentage of women coaching women's college teams is near an all-time low (42.8 percent). In 1972, nine out of 10
women's teams were coached by a female. Some say that trend has helped women's athletics....