I think one of the coaches I work with is purposely excluding black girls from the club. Should I say something?
I started working at this soccer club. I've been there for about a year, most of the other coaches are well seasoned coaches who have been there for a while. We live in a small, predominantly white, upper class segregated city so a large majority of the players at our club are very affluent white kids. This year at tryouts, we've had a few people of color (mainly blacks but some hispanics)" We as coaches are all required to rate each girl at tryouts on a scale from 1 to 5.
1 being they aren't ready for the club and 5 being they need to move higher up in the club to a different tier because they are too good for this level. There's 10 coaches, including myself that evaluated 100 girls in the span of 5 days. I've been going over my evals and I've noticed that one of the coaches, Eric, has ratings that are basically outliers compared to the rest of our ratings only when it comes to the black girls that tried out.
For example, so far, I have gone back over every black girl from tryouts and if all ten coaches gave her a 4 and 5, Eric, gave her a 1 or 2. He also did not write any notes for the white girls he evaluated but under the black girls evals he wrote things like "unathletic, lacks technical and tactical IQs, not impactful on the field, could stand to get more training which is why I rank them low, think she would do much better in a lower tier"
Notes are optional but I checked his evals and he only wrote notes on black kids and they were all negative notes. I came across this because I evaluated a black girl who was very good at goalkeeper and also played as a center back and I ranked her a 4 and her other ranks were 4,4,4,5,4,4,4,5 but I noticed that Eric rated her a 2 and said she wasn't "impactful on the field, didn't get a lot of touches on ball"
I can't imagine what he gains by not letting black kids be on teams but I find it weird that no one has caught this. I really don't have any stance to make any accusations but I wanted to know how you would treat the situation. I am a huge advocate for equality and while I know some may look at this and say "what's the big deal, it's just youth soccer" I don't want a kid to miss out on an opportunity because of their skin tone or social economic background and I also don't think someone should be employed in youth sports if they are going to treat kids differently based on the color of their skin.