Recent hirings applauded, but not many women in sport leadership roles
TORONTO — Catherine Raiche, then assistant GM of football operations for the Montreal Alouettes, recalls being at a Florida minicamp last year when an employee at the training facility had a question for the team’s head athletic therapist.
With a glance over at Raiche, he asked the therapist: “Or should I talk to your secretary?”
The 29-year-old Raiche, now director of football administration for the Toronto Argonauts, says that kind of antiquated mistaken identity happens “very, very often.”
“It’s funny how you have those pre-conceived ideas because you’re a woman in this world, that you’ll only have a certain type of position,” she said.