[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Decades ago (before the OhioHSAA had gone to three-person crews, I was the R in a Saturday afternoon girls' H.S. varsity game.

My partner and I had just started our Pre-Game Captains' Meeting when I noticed the Home Team's Captain's fingernails were approximately 5/8 inches long and it was obvious that all of her fingernails were this long and that they were fake fake fingernails. I informed the Home Captain that she could not play with her fingernails as they were.

The Captain was not pleased with what I told her because she was going to a formal dance that evening and she had had her fingernails done at $15 per finger for the dance that evening. She did not start the game because of her fingernails. Her mother was very very mad and complained to the Home AD and the AD complained to me. The AD asked me what I wanted the girl to do so that she could play. I told him that it was not my responsibility to instruct the Player as to what to do to make herself legal. The AD was not happy that I was not stupid enough to tell him what his Player needed to do to become legal.

Late in the 1st QT she from the locker room to play. Her mother had cut all of the fake fingernails off.

MTD, Sr.