In my four decades of coaching young athletes, there has been no greater equalizer for women’s and girls’ sports than Title IX. Unfortunately, President Biden’s recent executive order will set back women’s sports by half a century.

I started my coaching career at Hermitage High School in southern Arkansas, where I coached the boys’ football team and the girls’ basketball team. The work was tough but extremely rewarding. I wanted to make sure the young athletes I coached learned the same lessons that I had learned as a high school athlete: for example, the value of discipline and hard work, how to deal with success and failure, how to motivate and be a leader, and the importance of putting the interests of the team ahead of the individual.