As the end of the twentieth century approaches, most Americans recognize the importance of diversity in the workplace. In a nutshell, gender, race, and religion have been declared non-issues as far as employment qualifications are concerned. Namely, if a person's skills are sufficient to do a particular job, according to the job description, that person can get hired for the position that he or she has applied for.
Diversity is important in athletics, too.
Americans like diversity. I level of competition. So, especially within intercollegiate athletics, diversity is good. And there's generally a shy guy and an outgoing guy. Maybe one guy out of the dozen still wears leisure suits.