Episode 9: Women’s football and female coaches – Briony Smith

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In this episode, Briony Smith share’s her experiences of being one of the top up and coming female coaches in women’s football. Briony recently graduated from the University of Bath with a first class degree in Sport, Management and Coaching. Briony was selected to take part in the Powerhouse Project, an initiative focused on empowering female coaches in sport and supporting the next generation of leaders. She was one of only 10 women selected from across the country to take part in a National Coach retreat in May, with Carla Ward. This year, she won the University of Bath Coach of the Year award. Briony also produced a first-class dissertation project ‘Breaking through the glass ceiling: unveiling barriers in women’s football coaching education’. Briony talks about some of the opporunities and challenges she has faced as a female coach and her plans and the importance of coach education and leadership programmes to help tackle some of the existing gender inequalities in football coaching. Briony will be starting a new job in September with championship club Plymouth Argyle, coaching within their academies, centre of excellence and player pathways. Recently, Briony was also invited to host the first women’s football podcast on the global sports podcasts. You can listen to the podcast here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0wFytQuEJ2GPLoTKj54e1d?si=QMV6vcg9R86IIBehALt7PQ&t=2 You can connect with Briony via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/briony-smith-870163322/