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Originally posted by rainmaker
Rut -- we have season tickets for WNBA here in Portland (Go, Fire!!) and I can tell you that I have only seen one crew of all women. Actually, I didn't see it because I didn't make that game, but my husband told me. Of the games I have watched on TV (about 80% of what's available) I have never seen an all-women crew. I think this still fits the definition of unusual.
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I think you need to read what I said. I never said that you always have an all-women crew. I am just saying that at the higher women levels, to have a all-women crew doing the Championship or and All-Star game is not very unusual. And my comments were to basically say that what she saw was not a "great" accomplishment. You might not see an all-Black crew all the time either, but it does happen from time to to in College and in the NBA. Basically, it was not a first, that was my point.
You also have to be realistic, women are not officiating in the numbers that men are. Only last year did I work with a female for the first time in a varsity game. And when I see or work a girls game still, I do not see hardly any women doing those games. But it is still not a major thing to see women work a game anymore.