How many High Schools employ a female Strength & Conditioning coach? How many employ two?

CrossFit has empowered women in leaps and bounds to not only weight train but to coach as well as be equal in every way. When I hear other women talk about stepping into Strength and Conditioning the conversation is alway so foreign to me. They talk about being the only female for miles, feeling isolated, their voices not heard or that they've had to change their name on their resume to get an interview.

In CrossFit female coaches aren't even a topic for debate. Female coaches are not far and few between, they're not "out of place" or even anything special. They're voices and presents hold as much weight as the human being next to them. So much so that I had no idea an outdated thought even still exists until I started following S&C coaches. The world of S&C is decades behind if this is even still an issue that needs any kind of discussion or validation. It's not even something that needs any thought in CrossFit. On the contrary some of the most challenging workouts are named after females almost to idolize or give testament to their power and ability. To speak from personal experience here at Verona I am one of currently two female Strength and Conditioning coaches and our athletes have never been stronger, healthier and faster. 

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No!

1. This may come as a surprise but the viral fail videos online you see shared too often and love to hate are not what define the CrossFit methodology. Unlike social media's portrayal of only ideal lifts and perfect repetitions, CrossFit is very transparent and that means failure if a part of life and progression. Athletes failed lifts are a testament to the struggle, to the truth that every battle isn't always pretty and something we should share and learn from. 
2. Technique and quality of movement are a top priority in CrossFit. If you disagree I encourage you to read something out of the CrossFIt journal or stop into a quality local CrossFit gym and talk to an experienced trainer instead of watching viral fail videos and believing that's what CrossFit is. 
3. Here is the biggest reason you were misled to believe this myth. The National Strength & Conditioning Association published false and fabricated data to intentionally hurt CrossFit. Here are the details of CrossFit's legal battle and their win:

"CrossFit, Inc. sued the NSCA after the NSCA published a “scientific” study containing false and fabricated data about CrossFit’s injury rate that was designed specifically to harm CrossFit’s business and reputation. Additionally, as elaborated in CrossFit, Inc.’s June 2019 request for terminating sanctions:

For the last five years, the NSCA has engaged in nothing short of a marathon of malfeasance: a consistent, intentional, and malicious pattern of discovery abuses designed to cover up the NSCA’s wrongdoing and to prohibit CrossFit and the Court from learning the truth about the NSCA’s fraud. The NSCA’s abuses, and efforts to conceal its abuses, are among the worst of any published case in modern history and include systemic perjury, evidence destruction, and evidence concealment."

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"Why do some myths seem to stick around even when there is overwhelming evidence to the contrary? The question: should kids lift weights? is one of those myths. Kids in our fitness program have been lifting weights for over 20 years, and for all those 20 years we have heard the same two myths about kids lifting weights. These myths are as persistent as they are untrue. We’ve acted against them for two decades, in our coaching and our coaching instruction, but we still hear these myths today." Kelly Starrett

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