The Daily Orange

Year in Sports | More men are coaching women, and Syracuse is no exception

Abstract:
Pat Jensen taught her boy Luke how to treat women as a child. All Luke had to do was watch his mom coach her high school gymnastics team practice, 30 to 40 girls tumbling in the Ludington High gym with no ice machines in sight.

"In the middle of the winter," said Luke, now coach of the Syracuse tennis team, "if a gymnast twisted her ankle, this is no lie, in a leotard, she put her outside in a snow bank, shove her foot in the snow for 20 minutes....

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Jane

posted 4/15/08 @ 5:58 PM EST

Wow! I think the D.O. completely missed the mark with this story. It might have served you better to actually ask a female coach about men coaching women's teams. I believe the article would have been completely different. Did you ever think to ask how coaches are compensated whether they be male or female? Dr. Gross may say that the gender of his coaches does not matter, but it certainly effects how much he is willing to pay them. There is a better story here . . .

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