By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
The University of Minnesota’s Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport released its 13th annual Women in College Coaching Report Card over the summer. Swimming was one of seven sports tracked by the Center that improved its grade from the center, which is based on the percentage of women head coaches of women’s teams in the ‘Select Seven’ conferences.
Read the full report here.In the 2024-2025 season, 29.2% of women’s swimming teams were head coached by women, which grades the sport as a “D” on the Center’s traditional A through F scale. A season prior, swimming received an “F” with just 23.9% of women’s programs in the measured sample being led by women head coaches.
The ‘Select Seven” includes the American Athletic Conference, ACC, Big 12, Big East, Big Ten, SEC, and the Pac-12, which lost most of its programs at the conclusion of the measured season. The conferences include 94 schools and 65 women’s swimming & diving programs.
The premise of the report, which is released annually, is to measure the number of women who are head coaches of women’s teams. From the Center’s report:
What we want to emphasize is the underrepresentation of women is not the problem, it is a symptom of the problem. The real problem is a culture, both societal and within sport, that does not value or support women or give them the opportunities they deserve.
The report has measured a steady increase in women who lead women’s programs since 2021. That has come after a period of stagnation where the number was about 41-42% for most of the 2010s. That number has now risen to 47.7%.
The range of percentages range from 100% for acrobatics & tumbling and wrestling to just 10% of fencing coaches. Fencing, like swimming & diving, often share head coaches between men’s and women’s programs.
Diving still received an “F” rating with just 13.1% of head diving coaches of women’s programs being women. Diving coaches are almost always shared between men’s and women’s programs. Other sports that received “F” grades similarly share head coaches: cross country (20.2%) and track & field (17.4%).
The highest percentage among sports with at least 25 programs in the sample is lacrosse, which had 97.1% of women’s programs led by women. Field Hockey (87%, less than 25 institutions); softball (79.7%), Equestrian (75%, less than 15 institutions), and golf (74.4%) also received “A” grades.
The Center also evaluates grades at the conference and institution levels. Of the nine universities that received “A” grades, five have swimming & diving programs. Of those, three have female head coaches (Cincinnati/Mandy Commons-DiSalle, Penn State/Hollie Bonewit-Cron, and UCLA/Jordan Wolfrum) and two have male head coaches (Michigan and Cal).
The SEC and Big 12 continue to rank low as conferences, with the Big Ten leading the way.
Among the new women coaches hired last season was 12-time Olympic medalist Dara Torres at Boston College. Other hires included Tamber McAllister at BYU (replacing another woman), Blaire Bachman at Texas A&M (replacing a man), and Hollie Bonewit-Cron at Penn State (replacing a man).
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