Are there, or have there ever been any, female permanent head football coaches at a public high school in Virginia?
Female Football Head Coach?
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Highly doubtful there's ever been one in Virginia, but there was one in DC who incidentally is a UVa graduate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Randolph
Searching for "female high school football coach" turns up a few more in recent years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Randolph
Searching for "female high school football coach" turns up a few more in recent years.
I guess this is to be expected. I doubt if there have been many more than 25 female HS players in Va since the dawn of football. It would be hard to believe that a female would gravitate to coaching football unless they played the game. Not that that can't or shouldn't, just that they haven't.
So let me ask this, what female do you know of that probably left the biggest mark as a player on a Va HS team. I'm betting it may have been a kicker?
Jamestown had a young lady on their team in 2014. I don't remember much about her though, other than she wasn't a kicker.
So let me ask this, what female do you know of that probably left the biggest mark as a player on a Va HS team. I'm betting it may have been a kicker?
Jamestown had a young lady on their team in 2014. I don't remember much about her though, other than she wasn't a kicker.
There was a girl who played for Page County back when I did radio PvP, but she was a wr/db and only got in the game during blowouts, at least that I saw. I also remember a girl who played freshman football for Warren County, and was one of the leading tacklers.
I had never heard of a female coaching any high school boy's team until Bartlett Yancey (which is about 10 minutes from Danville across the state line in N.C.) had a female head basketball coach 2 or 3 years ago. She may still be there, I don't know anyone from Yanceyville to ask. It's getting common in officiating and coaching (I think there's one in the NFL as an assistant for the Cardinals and 2 in the NBA).
Actually, after thinking about it, I believe Bleeding Navy was the best female I ever saw play the game! (He, he, he! )
DP, is the young lady who played for yall last year, playing this year?
It's a little surprising that we don't see more female boy's basketball coaches in HS. Most of the better girl's coaches I've see were certainly skilled enough.
I'm a huge Becky Hammon fan! I hope she will get a NBA team one day. She's one of the Spurs top assistants. I know quite a few that could make some guy teams contenders here in VA on the smaller levels. I'd bet Lake Taylor's women's coach could bring a 4a-6a boys team a couple of state championships.
The late Brenda King was hired as the head boys basketball coach at Radford in 1991, after having led the Bobcat girls to two state titles. The article to which I've linked states that King would be the first female head coach of a boys public school team "since World War II". King's son Jared starred in basketball and baseball at Pulaski County (think he graduated in 2007?) and went on to play varsity baseball at Virginia.
https://news.google.com/newspapers?...AIBAJ&sjid=xosDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6984,4325988&hl=en
https://news.google.com/newspapers?...AIBAJ&sjid=xosDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6984,4325988&hl=en
Were there an abundance of female coaches in men's sports during the war years?
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I don't know, but it would make sense. You're the one who was finishing up high school back then!
Yeah but we're talking WW1