Disadavantages Of Mixed Gender Sports Teams

By Charles Wong.

There are undoubted benefits associated to physical fitness, a more modified means over time had been introduced to make exercise a more interesting phenomenon and also encourage it. All these modifications are what comes up on a general term when we say the word "sports". This acts improves both the mental and physical being of a human. on the other hand, some of these sports encourages teamwork especially in growing kids.

however, some people believe that gender segregated activities in sports that is, some sports activities played in eighter all girls or all boys formula is sending the wrong message to kids by making them to believe that boys and girls can't play together thereby keeping them apart.

Well! Not surprised as the complains from some existing coed sports teams keep coming up in panels for discussions coaches of this few existing coed teams have presented a lot of challenges associated with coed teams, from their own observations and these reasons should be specifically considered before further coed sports teams are created.

 

Skill Level

This factor had been one of the most argued factor on debate as most people believe that skill level is highly dependent on age while a second group thought it is on personal gifts and exposure to the field of play. However many had agreed that children of younger ages under-perform while playing with older kids than when playing with age mates.

Due to this highschool leagues and community recreation is usually divide into junior and senior versities with selection critically dependent on age. Also  boys and girls of thesame age likely have different skill level this is due to some physical conditions which probes one group advantaged over the other group this factors includes height and strength most factors in favor of the male.

On observations, females do not perform as better as they do while playing in a mixed team than while playing in an  all girls competish where they are competing with opponents of similar skills.

 Comfort

Every gender in sports is believed to have comfort zone, like; boys on a general note fear for the the girls on the field of play as they avoid not to be too aggressive on them thus they are conscious of the strength difference. Also a boy may fear failing in front of the girl he likes socially. This might affect performance negatively.

similarly, girls become more timid while competing against the boys than they could have become in an all girls team. And always, they avoids momentum with the male this also affects performance negatively.

  Motivation

Coaches can face challenges when organising a mixed sports team. Although every player might respond to different motivations, coaches can find general ways to motivate teams of boys or teams of girls.

Motivating a team of boys and girls, who inherently might have different reasons for playing or factors that motivate them, can be specifically challenging. Finding a gender-neutral way to coach and motivate a team is one of the disadvantages of mixed sports team .

Logistics

Coed sports teams logistically presents a few challenges. While coaches can overcome these logistical challenges, the effort might not be worth it when all of the disadvantages of coed teams are considered. Boys and girls often wear different styles and cuts of uniforms, doubling the effort that teams have to make when selecting uniforms.

In a coed team, locker room will have to be share between the boys and the girls as both cant be in the same locker room at thesame time. This leads to delays during a half time speech as the coach will have to wait for both groups to arrive at a spot.