The Female Coaching Network Track & Field: UK is a groundbreaking approach to making much needed change in the world of British track and field. Pre 2020, the sport was in dire need of highlighting and addressing the many issues… Read More »Track & Field: UK
With the Women’s Super League (the professional women’s football league in England) celebrating it’s 10th year (2021), we thought we’d take a look back over the history of the leagues female head coaches. The WSL has hosted some of the… Read More »10 Years of the Women’s Super League – Meet the Female Head Coaches
Special Jennings is a basketball coach in the US. She is currently the Girls Head Coach at Montverde Academy High School, Florida. Special’s previous position was Associate Head Coach at The University of Illinois at Chicago, spending two years there… Read More »Special Jennings – Interview
Laura Turner-Alleyne is a Track & Field coach based in the U.K. She has accrued over 20 years of experience in Athletics, from grass roots through to her senior athletic career as a GB International Sprinter and medallist on the… Read More »Laura Turner-Alleyne – Interview
Wes (Lesley) Blair is a Netball Coach based in Warwickshire, England. With more than 24 years coaching experience having worked for England Netball for ten years as well as coaching a number of teams including the University of Wolverhampton’s netball… Read More »Wes Blair – Interview
The aim of this present study was to: map the composition of the athletics coaching workforce in the UK, understand the experiences of high-performance female coaches working within their organisations, understand the impact of gender diversity amongst coaches on high-performance… Read More »The Athletes Perspective: ‘Achieving Gender Equity in High Performance Athletics Coaching in the UK’
FCN launches their long awaited research project “Achieving Gender Equity in High Performance Athletics Coaching in the U.K.” This project, in partnership with Professor Leanne Norman of the Centre for Social Justice in Sport and Society at Leeds Beckett University… Read More »Launch of our Research Project: Achieving Gender Equity in High Performance Athletics Coaching in the U.K.
For a woman in sport, one of the most difficult tasks is often finding sports wear that not only fits, but makes you look and feel professional. Walk into any mainstream sports store, and you have a choice between the… Read More »How important is women’s fitted kit to you?
Christina Polatajko is an Aussie Rules football coach from Australia. In November 2020, Christina was hired by Bec Goddard (winning coach of the inaugural AFLW season) to join her as her Assistant at Hawthorn VFLW (Victoria Football League Women’s) team… Read More »Christina Polatajko – Interview
Below are a list of short videos highlighting some of the statistics we have discovered through our research of Track & Field in the U.K. More videos will be added over the coming weeks.