As women continue to make incredible strides in the hockey world, NHLCA president Lindsay Artkin is leading a push to make sure those advances include places behind the bench. A Big Read by EmmySadler
,” Mirasolo says. “And not only that, but he also had pictures in his slides of women’s hockey players — not just men’s hockey players, not just NHL players.”
“I just started hearing the same things over and over and over in terms of societal norms and pressures, unconscious biases, hockey challenges, general career advancement issues,” says Artkin. “So I’m like, ‘Okay, I feel like I’m starting to see the landscape of what it’s like to be a woman coaching hockey across North America.”he landscape shifted for Cassie Turner in her freshman year at Brown University, the first time in her life she had a female head coach.
Turner, who has now completed her 13th season, and seventh as head coach, with the Division-I Quinnipiac University women’s hockey program, knew right from the start that she wanted to coach women’s college hockey. And she hopes to pay it forward like Murphy did for her. “There’s nothing that makes me happier than to see my alums out and coaching little girls,” she says.
Nestled within this issue, of course, is the double-standard that dictates that while men can coach both men’s and women’s hockey, women can only coach women. It’s a belief that has meant the vast pool of job opportunities for men shrinks to a puddle for women with equivalent qualifications.
Kompon was partnered up with Turner during the pilot and tasked with putting together a pair of presentations for a group of college coaches. Since first collaborating, the two have stayed in touch, checking in, busy schedules allowing, about once a month. “Now, he’s a friend. He’s somebody who I message about different things, and we’ve gotten on a number of different calls together and talked about different things,” Turner says. “He’s been a true mentor and he’s helped me exponentially.
“It continues to evolve because as a coach, you never stop learning,” she continues. “And so, I think you’re always in a role of being both a mentee and a mentor.”
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