Why would players come to you, a coach asked Sharon Creer, referring to her male basketball clients.
“Why not?” she responded.
“Because you’re a woman,” the coach retorted as if the answer were an obvious one.
That was three years ago. And while female sports agents aren’t a novelty in the WNBA, “In the male genre, I’m still quite new,” Creer acknowledges. In the beginning, she often received voice mail from coaches who were startled by talking to a female agent. Creer hasn’t, however, allowed such overt or even intimated sexism deter her from what she identified as a great career opportunity.
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