NATIONAL WOMEN COACHES DAY 3.7.26
PAT SUMMITT
Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree, 2025
CARMEN JACKSON,
Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree, 2025
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NATIONAL WOMEN COACHES DAY
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SISTER LYNN WINSOR
Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree, 2024
"Great women coaches see not only where their teams are—but what they can become. They recognize potential, demand growth, and bring out the best in others."
Coach Carol “Hutch” Hutchins
National Women Coaches Day honors the powerful influence of women coaches who lead, mentor, and inspire the next generation of athletes and is a commitment to building a future where women coaches belong and thrive in every coaching arena. The day is also intended to raise awareness of the need for more women in coaching roles.
Despite decades of growth in girls’ and women’s sport participation following the passage of Title IX, research from the NCAA Demographics Database, the Aspen Institute’s Project Play, and the Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport shows that women remain significantly underrepresented in coaching leadership. In 1972, more than 90% of women’s collegiate teams were coached by women. Today, women coach 41% of women’s teams across all three NCAA divisions. Women of color lead only 7% of NCAA women’s teams and 1% of men’s teams. At the youth level, women coaches accounted for 26% in 2022.
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