Readings I recommend and some things they taught me and/or thoughts they helped me develop:

 

Health Promotion in Socially Vulnerable Youth by Karen Van der Veken, Sara Willems, and Emelien Lauwerier 

• Understand the environment you are coaching in, in terms of wealth and race

• Take initiative in helping and holding important conversations

• Promote understanding, effort > result, and good conflict management

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Gender inclusive sport: a paradigm shift for research, policy, and practice by Sheree Bekker, Ryan Storr, Seema Patel, and Payoshni Mitra

Four principles for gender inclusive sport:​​

• Leading with inclusion

  • Involve folks in the policy making that's about them​

  • Prioritize gender diverse people in sports

  • Diversity and inclusion director or team

• Decentring regulatory science

  • The science around "what is a woman athlete" is not clear and cut​

  • Requirement for surgery/hormones undercuts human rights

• Investment in community and youth sport

  • Hatred for transgender athletes affects mental health of LGBTQ youth​

  • Young trans folks want to participate in sports, but do not due to hostile environment

• Double down on gender equity

  • What does "fair" mean?​

  • Stereotyping, unequal resources, pay discrimination, and sexual harassment mainly from coaches is what pushes girls out of sports

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Access Intimacy, Interdependence and Disability Justice by Mia Mingus​

• Do not just focus on "inclusion" of disabled people, examine why they are pushes to the bottom

• Stand against ableism, work to understand the world of disability and disability justice

• Move past the patterns of simultaneously pitying disabled people and using them as inspiration porn

• Do not force a story or explanation out of the disabled athlete you are aiming to help

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The Women's Sports Foundation Report Brief

• Black girls are the least involved in sports due to lack of resources and opportunities, lack of familial support, and other responsibilities

• Black women have the highest rates of cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and stroke risk

• White girls are involved in more and better funded sports than any other ethnic group

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The Underreporting of Concussion: Differences Between Black and White High School Athletes Likely Stemming from Inequities by Jessica Wallace, Abigail Bretzin, Erica Beidler, Tamaria Hibbler, Danae Delfin, Haleigh Gray, and Tracey Covassin

• Black athletes are less likely to report concussions and bellringers

• This is due to a lack of education being provided to Black athletes on what they look like and how to talk about

• I believe there needs to be more research on the findings here and their relationship with sports historically being a way for Black men to find job security

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College Athletes Under Pressure: Eating Disorders Among Female Track and Field Athletes by Michael A. Quinn and Stephanie Robinson

• Pressure from teammates and coaches caused vomiting behaviors from players

• Social pressures caused dieting

• Sport counselors and psychologists are helpful for mental health and disordered eating

• Eating disorder screenings are necessary

• Change the team culture and pressure around thinness and fatness

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