When Caitlin Lowe was named the next head coach of Arizona softball this week, it was hailed as a step forward. In many ways, though, it was a step into the past of women’s sports. A past when almost all women and girls who played sports had a female coach to look up to.
“When I first got into the game...there were five head coaches that were men,” former head coach Mike Candrea said. “But that was back right when Title IX just started and it just wasn’t cool to be coaching softball. If you’re a guy you want to coach baseball, right?