New Syracuse athletic director Mark Coyle will inherit a department that employs the lowest percentage of female head coaches for women's teams among all schools in the seven major conferences, according to data obtained from each school's athletics website.
Following softball head coach Leigh Ross' resignation earlier this month, Syracuse now employs only one female head coach for its 11 women's teams. That is the smallest fraction of women's teams with a female head coach at any school in the American Athletic Conference, Atlantic Coast Conference, Big 12 Conference, Big East Conference, Big Ten Conference, Pac-12 Conference, or Southeastern Conference.