English 341 Team 1 Timeline: Women In Coaching and Team Ownership By izzyiliff 1911 Helene Britton becomes the first female owner in the history of Major League Baseball More Details 1972 Title IX is passed More Details 1972 90% of the coaching staff for women’s sports throughout the nation is dominated by women More Details 1976 "How to Triumph Like a Girl" - poem by Ada Limón More Details 1979 Georgia Frontiere becomes the first female NFL owner More Details 1988 New York Times article: "Women Coaches are an Endangered Species" More Details 1992 Teri McKeever becomes the women’s head swim team coach at the University of California, Berkeley More Details 1993 Chris Brownell becomes the first woman in the world to coach a men’s collegiate squash team More Details 1997 The Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) begins - seven out of the eight head coaches are women More Details 2003 Teresa Phillips becomes the first woman to coach a Division 1 men’s basketball team More Details May 24, 2005 Sheila Johnson becomes the first female African-American owner in the WNBA More Details 2006 Only 42% of the coaching staff for women's sports is made up by women More Details 2007 Pat Summit, head coach of the University of Tennessee’s women’s basketball team, scores her seventh NCAA title More Details 2007 In the WNBA (Women's National Basketball Association), nine of the thirteen head coaching staff are men More Details Nov 5, 2009 Nancy Lieberman becomes the first female head coach of a professional men’s basketball team in the U.S. More Details 2010 The University of Florida reports that women are still the minority in head coaching of sports More Details 2011 The Alliance of Women Coaches is founded More Details 2016 The NFL expands their “Rooney Rule” to include female candidates More Details Apr 1, 2016 "What We Are Made Of" - poem by Janae Johnson More Details Jun 29, 2016 Sporting News released their list of the 50 greatest coaches in U.S. sport history, and it only included one woman More Details