What the H?

[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by Loudwhistle

Now I'm starting to understand why they don't let boys and girls mix teams at the high school level!

But they'll let the wrestle each other. Where's the logic in that?

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle

But they'll let the wrestle each other. Where's the logic in that?

In some states, in some schools, anti-discrimination lawsuits have allowed boys to play on girls field hockey teams, where boys field hockey is not available. This has led to questions about the fairness of school field hockey teams with many boys, playing schools with all girls field hockey teams. Teenage boys, with testosterone flowing, are usually bigger, stronger, and faster than teenage girls.

Has Title IX, and anti-discrimination, gone too far? Due to limited funding, will "minor" high school sports dissappear like some "minor" college sports, men's gymnastics, men's wrestling, etc. Here in New England, Providence College was forced to eliminate its very successful men's baseball program to satisfy the Title IX provision of equal funding for men's and women's sports.

Both my daughters have benifited from Title IX funding in both high school, and college sports. Opportunities were made available to them that were not made available to females back when I was in high school, and college, but when field hockey teams with boys win state championships, and colleges like Providence have to eliminate men's sports, has the fairness "pendulum" swung too far in one direction?

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

In some states, in some schools, anti-discrimination lawsuits have allowed boys to play on girls field hockey teams, where boys field hockey is not available.

Yup, I saw that commercial too.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Yup, I saw that commercial too.

Jurassic Referee: What commercial are you refering to? I became aware of this situation when attending a Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC), the governing body for high school sports here in Connecticut, conference on the legal issues surrounding high school sports eligibility here in Connecticut. We were warned that more and more legal challanges were going to be made in the future that would change the "traditional" idea of high school sports, and that the CIAC, with its limted legal funding, was not going to fight every battle, but would "pick and choose" which battles to fight regarding high school sports eligibility.

[Nevadaref]

There was a TV commercial a year or so ago about a guy playing with the women's field hockey team. When there was a goal scored he got to hug all the girls.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

There was a TV commercial a year or so ago about a guy playing with the women's field hockey team. When there was a goal scored he got to hug all the girls.

And after he scored, he lifted his shirt up a la Mia Hamm too.

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

And after he scored, he lifted his shirt up a la Mia Hamm too.

Mia Hamm? I thought it was Brandi_Chastain.

[grunewar]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Has Title IX, and anti-discrimination, gone too far? Due to limited funding, will "minor" high school sports dissappear like some "minor" college sports, men's gymnastics, men's wrestling, etc. Here in New England, Providence College was forced to eliminate its very successful men's baseball program to satisfy the Title IX provision of equal funding for men's and women's sports.

Here in VA, James Madison University has suffered a similar fate - the elimination of many of their very successful sports programs due to the "equal funding rule." We HAVE gone too far.