BCA releases first hiring report on women's basketball

I was reading an article on espn.com where the BCA released a hiring report on women's basketball. A record of seven black head coaches were hired, yet minorities still represent less than 10 percent of all coaches. I found that information surprising, because of everything that has been going on in the world especially all the advances that women and minorities have received. As far as in politics we have a woman and a minority running for Office, that shows you we have come a long way. But if a woman and a minority are able to run for office, why are there still not a large or even an equal amount of minority coaches in women's basketball? In the article it says that forty-four percent of the athletes are minorities, but there is only a 9.6 representation in the coaches. Although there is only a small amount of minority coaches, they have come a long way. Many of the minority coaches have said that they actually got to interview in front of a committee, and got their foot in the door. It also said that this year has been a record in hiring minority coaches 11 of 19 schools that replaced coaches in 2006-2007 were minorities. That right there just shows that we are slowly progressing. It's sad that race actually still matters when it comes to coaching in our society. But who would have thought that today we would have a woman and a minority running for office?

~Kimberly Williams KIN 338 T/Thu 9:30-10:45