The decline of female coaches across the US started as the Department of Education had issued Title IX in 1972. The legislation prohibited sex discrimination in publicly-funded educational programs. It brought more girls into athletic teams and suddenly halved the number of collegiate female coaches by now. As male and female athletic departments were combined, men frequently coached female teams. Women are often seen as administrators or assistants supervised by male coaches. The parity of payment for male and female team coaches attracted even more men to a lucrative position and gradually pushed women out of the place, though not
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College athletes keep getting degrees spending about 40 hours per week on training sessions. That is 10 hours more than Division I players spend on academics. Division I and II baseball appeared to be the most demanding sport, but football does not lag behind. Officially, the NCAA restricts athletes’ practice to 20 hours per week, but these do not include voluntary workouts and more activities essential to collegiate student-athletes. Taking into account ever-increasing workload, college athletes cannot meet the standards of higher education. In 2013, college athletes graduated at 18-percent lower rate than non-athletes, and the figure was even
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A sudden death of the athlete is a tragic outcome of sports competitions but no one seems capable to prevent it. Racing, triathlon, football, or rugby – all of them are considered traumatic. But the scale of a possible injury depends only on athletes and their physical condition. The first probable explanation why young people die in the middle of the competition is an undiscovered heart ailment. If a middle-aged person experienced a sudden heart attack, they probably had a coronary artery disease. When younger athletes die in competition, they might have an undiagnosed inherited cardiovascular disease. Participating in sports,
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Coaches are a lot like teachers but they take even more responsibility doing their job. It is much harder to take credit for safety of students who constantly run, jump, and exercise. Besides, coaches always face the judgment of colleagues, students, parents, just everyone who sees them working. Like in the case with teachers, there are little criteria to evaluate the coach effectively. Every time people judge coaches according to whether their team wins or loses. Nevertheless, there are better criteria of being a successful coach. High qualification and remarkable personal achievements in sports always put a coach in a
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Sport is not only regular exercise but also business that makes profit creating jobs and hiring athletes. There are marketing professionals, accountants, and salespeople in sports; they arrange games, release tickets, work with teams and their managers. The latter is essential for every team who work in their sports. We need management in every type of business, and sport is not an exception. Coaching athletes is not enough to run an effective business, and sports managers take over numerous essential duties. In teams, such a manager hires and fires athletes, negotiates their payment, and draws up the contract for each
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