Our Ladies in Cleats VOL. IX ISSUE I

For the past 34 years Boone has worked with 20 thousand different athletes at all different levels in high school and college. When she started at Perry as a weight coach four years ago, her first impression was, “[the] football guys see me …and they’re probably thinking ‘what’s this?’…But after a day I don’t think anybody thinks about it anymore.” She adds, “If you’re the right...

Facing the adversity of societal standards and stereotypes, head athletic trainer Rebecca Goetz has risen above judgement and passed on her knowledge to her students and trainees. Her career was launched by her experience as an athletic training student aide during her junior and senior year of high school. She was motivated to become a high school athletic trainer by her own trainer in high sc...

A female coach in a male sport is a rare phenomenon, but not as obscure in Arizona. With the new female coach for the Arizona Cardinals, Jen Welter, and the female coaches here, we may be ahead of the so-called gender game. It seems that women in positions of athletic authority face prejudice every day, but this is not true for our school. When Perry’s female strength coach Joelyn Boone was growing...