What are they saying about Scouting Baseball!?
“This program is great. It’s about getting the experience, getting in front of players and learning from others. You can’t do it by yourself. There have to be people helping you along the way. … We want to help and see the next Amanda Hopkins...”
Inside the Women's Sports School's first baseball scouting weekend
by Alec Lewis, The Athletic | Nov. 26, 2019
“How does it occur to us to become a scout?...As we’re coming through athletics (as women), you don’t see scouts and say, ...I can be that' ... And so, who do you ask that question to?
How does it become a possibility?”
WISE Women Scout Baseball
by Alexis Collins, Baseball Prospectus | Oct. 9, 2019
"...there is no one-size-fits-all background for every would-be candidate (for a career in a baseball front office.) Regardless of which category... with a little perseverance and some luck a door will open eventually. Unless, that is, the candidate is a woman."
Prospectus Roundtable: WISE
by Ginny Searle, Alexis Collins, and Kate Preusser, Baseball Prospectus | Oct 29, 2019
"I came away from the event very determined and motivated to continue working hard towards my goals and believing that I will one day achieve what I have set out to accomplish."
Improving gender diversity among baseball scouts is goal of recent
Women's Sports School event
by Lamar Smith, Cronkite News | Nov. 22, 2019
"It's empowering for them to just be in the room with so many like-minded women."
by Alec Lewis, The Athletic | Nov. 26, 2019
“How does it occur to us to become a scout?...As we’re coming through athletics (as women), you don’t see scouts and say, ...I can be that' ... And so, who do you ask that question to?
How does it become a possibility?”
WISE Women Scout Baseball
by Alexis Collins, Baseball Prospectus | Oct. 9, 2019
"...there is no one-size-fits-all background for every would-be candidate (for a career in a baseball front office.) Regardless of which category... with a little perseverance and some luck a door will open eventually. Unless, that is, the candidate is a woman."
Prospectus Roundtable: WISE
by Ginny Searle, Alexis Collins, and Kate Preusser, Baseball Prospectus | Oct 29, 2019
"I came away from the event very determined and motivated to continue working hard towards my goals and believing that I will one day achieve what I have set out to accomplish."
Improving gender diversity among baseball scouts is goal of recent
Women's Sports School event
by Lamar Smith, Cronkite News | Nov. 22, 2019
"It's empowering for them to just be in the room with so many like-minded women."
