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Sportshour: Breaking the coaching glass ceiling - tales from women's elite sport

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13/03/2021 GMT

Breaking the coaching glass ceiling - tales from women's elite sport

BBC World Service - Sportshour, Breaking the coaching glass ceiling - tales from women's elite sport

Netball World Cup winner Lisa Alexander on wanting to break the glass ceiling in coaching

Netball World Cup winner Lisa Alexander discusses her desires to coach in the AFL, and shatter a glass ceiling in the world of coaching in Australia.

Former Australia netball coach - Lisa Alexander – and the current England rugby union head coach - Eddie Jones – join the show to discuss Alexander’s desire to coach in the AFL - home of elite men's Aussie Rules. Alexander tells us she’s keen to work in the sport seen as the last bastion of male only coaches in Australia. Jones thinks his friend is courageous in wanting to try something new and they both believe more women will become coaches of men’s teams in the future. They also discuss the value of building relationships with other coaches and what they’ve learned from each other during their twenty year friendship.

Jennifer King tells us how she successfully switched from coaching women’s basketball to working at the highest level of American Football. King made history this year, when the Washington Football Team appointed her the first black female full-time coach in the NFL. King tells us about her career pathway, how she felt the biggest risk she was taking was in leaving behind a successful career coaching basketball and how in her experience, players don’t really care about the gender of their coach.

Kaisy Khademi recalls his remarkable life story and tells us how he hopes to become the first Afghan-British boxer to win a World Title. Khademi and his family fled the Taliban when he was just four years old, and it took them four years to reach England. It’s a tale that involves spending two years in Pakistan, illegal people traffickers, trekking through the jungle and entering England in the back of a refrigerated truck. He became a legal resident in the UK in 2010.

Photo: Australia coach Lisa Alexander talks to her players during a match between the New Zealand Silver Ferns and the Australia Diamonds. (Credit: Getty Images)

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