SMNTY Classics: An Overview of Women Coaches and Referees
Stuff Mom Never Told You
iHeartPodcasts
4.0 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Though women have been present in sports since the beginning, numerous obstacles have often stood in the way of them becoming coaches and referees. In this classic, we examine the playbook to look at the history of why this is and the ways people are trying to change it.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:09.2 | Hey, this is Annie. |
| 0:10.4 | And Samantha. |
| 0:11.2 | I'm welcome to Stuff Whenever Told You, production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:31.9 | And today, after our wonderful interview with Dr. Bath about trans athletes, it was just a wonderful thing. |
| 0:34.3 | Please go listen to that episode if you haven't already. |
| 0:41.0 | I thought we would bring back an episode we did about women coaches and referees. |
| 0:49.0 | Because when we did that episode, we talked about the importance of supportive coaches, |
| 0:53.1 | not necessarily referees, but I would say yes also. |
| 1:00.8 | And so just to add to that conversation, also just to note, we had a really funny discussion off mic about heated rivalry that might happen where she comes back on. |
| 1:08.0 | She was suggesting it and was excited and I was like, okay. |
| 1:10.5 | I'm into it. |
| 1:12.1 | I'm so into it. |
| 1:14.1 | But yeah, please enjoy this classic episode. |
| 1:21.9 | Hey, this is Annie. |
| 1:23.0 | And Samantha. |
| 1:23.8 | And welcome to Stuff I've never told you, a prediction of IHR Radio. |
| 1:35.1 | Okay. Samantha. And welcome to stuff whenever I've ever told you, a production of IHart Radio. And welcome to a long-awaited episode that we're doing on women, referees, and coaches, |
| 1:43.9 | a brief content warning for sexist language. Samantha, when you look |
| 1:50.0 | back in your experience, did you see or have more male coaches or female coaches? Well, so the only |
| 1:58.4 | sports I really participated in was cheerleading. |
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