WMU Professor Ray Cool teaches Coaching Theory courses in which students learn what it takes to become a coach. At least half of the class of roughly a dozen students tend to be female, Cool said.
Ashley Cross and Tara Charvat are two aspiring female coaches enrolled in Cool’s course. Cross could potentially see herself coaching male sports. One of her inspirations is Becky Hammon, one of the first full-time female assistant coaches in the National Basketball Association.
Charvat, whose passion is in dance and gymnastics, said she would not feel as comfortable coaching all male sports.