I was ranked fairly high in Texas my Senior year in high school, had a great, great experience on my tennis teams, both in high school and in college, and my college degree was substantially paid for by my tennis scholarship. And perhaps most importantly, it helps cultivate resilience. It provides participants with a peer group, and a feeling of inclusion. …evidence suggests that participating in an organized sport can benefit nearly all women, deeply instilling lessons from the value of practice to teamwork, says Kolbert. “While I only show this for girls, it’s reasonable to believe it’s true for boys as well.” “It’s not just that the people who are going to do well in life play sports, but that sports help people do better in life,” Stevenson told Parker-Pope. Stevenson found that ramping up girls’ participation in sports had a direct effect on their education and employment, explaining about 20 percent of the increase in education and about 40 percent of the rise in employment for women ages 25 to 34, Also compelling: The Oppenheimer study found that one in six adult women identify themselves as athletic-but the figure rises to almost half of women who make more than $75,000. In addition to gaining valuable skills, women who played (or passionately follow, for that matter) sports gain unique access to “boys” networks that they’d otherwise be excluded from, experts say. “We’d now like to do the research to prove it.” “There’s a whole lot of anecdotal evidence that disparities between women and men in the workplace are caused by a lack of athletic training and experience,” says Kathryn Kolbert, director of the Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College. Eight-two percent of executive businesswomen played organized sports after elementary school, according to a 2002 study by mutual fund company Oppenheimer, and evidence suggests that figure will likely rise over the next few decades, as more post-Title IX babies enter the workforce. Former high school and college athletes of all abilities hold positions of power in an array of arenas, from Sarah Palin (basketball) to Ellen DeGeneres (tennis). Perhaps not surprisingly, Carter Fleiss and Hyman are in good company. “Today, I still keep a list of my personal goals posted right in front of me-and encourage everyone else at Rent the Runway to do this-as a constant reminder of the bigger-picture things we’re working on.” “Our coach always had us write our goals on the back of our hands to be constantly reminded of them, to give one example,” says Jenny Carter Fleiss, who was captain of her track team in Riverdale, New York. Danielle Friedman on why it pays to play.īut the young entrepreneurs have undoubtedly carried lessons from their days as varsity athletes into the boardroom, attributing many of their managerial skills to their sporty pasts. (I will follow with a few observations of my own).Īthletic women make more money and hold more upper-management positions than those who shun sports-and their numbers are growing. In a fascinating article on the Daily Beast, Female Jocks Rule the World by Danielle Friedman, we learn quite a bit about this. Now researchers are trying to find those ways.Īnd it is true for women as well as men. We have always known that athletic contests build some kind of inner something that carries over into life in ways that are almost too numerous to mention, or even fully grasp.
When I moved to Dallas in 1987, it seemed that the name Roger Staubach was always staring at me from one corner or another. And his success on the field carried over into a vast Real Estate success. The winner of two Super Bowls for the Dallas Cowboys, Roger Staubach is simply the man. Here in Dallas, whatever punch the word “legendary” carries, it is not enough to describe the name Roger Staubach.
Roger Staubach: Super Bowl Winner in Football - Super Bowl winner in Business (Real Estate)
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