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Re: Female Captains and Girls on FRC Teams
I walk around a lot in the pits and talk to a lot of teams. Some of them are all girl teams. Now, when I evaluate other teams, what I catch onto very quickly is anxiety and tension. We all want to win and react entirely differently to it. With high school students, there will also be an added variable of insecurity from how I'm looking at it. I see it in girls and boys alike.
What you're picking up on I think is a failure to communicate. When talking with the girls of teams in the pits, I can easily see how enthusiasm could be misinterpreted as over confidence or being confrontational. Body language is an art to read into, and one never truly mastered. Actions are different for every person and when you've been talking and taking stock of teams all day, you tend to revert to thinking from only your own perspective and interpretations as a pose to the intended message.
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