The German Sport Activity Associations have the right to educate their coaches. Only a few of them support special educational courses for women. In cooperation with the Handball Association of the State of Lower Saxony new structures and programs were developed against the resistance of some officials. The project showed that with organizational changes more women could be recruited for the training process. Just by announcing special courses for women only, by offering the requirements within an overlooking time period, by scheduling the classes on weekends or during school holidays, and by offering child care an increasingly higher number of women applied for participation. Changes in teaching methods as well as adequate examinational procedures were chosen to meet the needs of women in their ways of learning. In the whole process the Handball Association is responsible to assure the quality and the level of competence of all their coaches, female or male. Since 1994 yearly courses were established that led to an increase of female handball coaches, highly motivated to teach and coach especially children and juveniles. As a next step: further programs for women on the advanced coaching level will be organized. More opportunities are necessary to educate women as competent leaders in their sport activity and to give evidence of their competency-not just to be goofy, marginalized or of less importance in sports.