Name: Casey Veldhouse

Social Justice Group: 2021-2022, Pay Gap for Women Athletes

Date of Fieldwork: March 25, 2022

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Luis Hernandez

Type of Fieldwork: Interview

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?[:: :

We interviewed our 5/6th grade PE teacher, Luis Hernandez. He has experience in female sports due to him being a coach of a few middle school and high school girls teams. Luis has been coaching the girls for a few years now and he gave us some information on how girls sports are treated differently then men’s sports.

Luis told us that immediately after switching to coaching girls teams, he notice a huge fan difference. Boys noticeably had way more fans then girls by a lot. In recent years, it has gotten way better. Recently, our middle school girls volleyball team was coached by Luis when he noticed something. There were so many more fans than before. Our generation is starting to make a difference that is becoming noticeable. Our volleyball team did really well and our fans did great to support them. If we keep the fans numbers going up, we will make a change.