Celebrating equality in sports?

"Real" hockey? Seriously?

Let's not stop there. Why don't male lacrosse players

Dude, you must live in a state which produces shitty female athletes because in my state the girls would win most of those races.

 

Pick a state and we can check the times between the girls' high school state track and field meet vs. the boys' junior high.

 

No, it mandates equal opportunity. And it's being denied because of sex, which is a clear violation of Federal law.

 

It's not a violation of federal law. If it was, men should sue to play college field hockey and be on the women's bowling team.

 

States maintain databases for junior high track!?!

 

I dunno, but we can try. Instead of just guessing.

I'll go with my home state of Illinois.

2011 High School girls champion, 100-meter dash:

11.96 seconds (fastest of the three class champions)

2011 Illinois 8th grade boys champion:
11.33 seconds

That's just one data point, of course, but just about any objective way we could try to find, 13-year-old boys will be faster than 17-year-old girls, on average.

 

An 11.96? Did she run into a 30 MPH headwind, in 40-degree temps, with some drizzle? That is slow.

Back in the day the girls in my state, which shall remain anonymous, ran in the 11.3 range. And that was a long time ago.

 

Well, we're faced with three options.

A) A state of 13 million people couldn't produce a single reasonably fast 18-year-old girl.
B) Your state had a very good run of anomolously fast girls.
C) Going from memory isn't accurate

In fact, the state of Illinois has never had a girl run an 11.3. The state record for girls 100-meter dash is 11.41.

 

Parents would have to get up to early

 

Honestly, we've seen women on football teams, so a man on a field hockey team wouldn't be that outrageous to me. Heck, given how good this kid appears to be, it might be him. If there was a guy who really wanted to be on his college's field hockey team and was good enough to do so (rare in this country because there's essentially no male field hockey programs), then go for it.

The NCAA offers very few sports where there are no counterparts for the opposite gender - wrestling and football for men; rowing, bowling and field hockey for women. If someone put up a big enough stink, I bet any man would be allowed to try out for and compete for the rowing team just like women have been on football teams.

 

Here's why kicking the boy off the team is not illegal. The following article is from 14 years ago, but I doubt males can say they have limited opportunities to participate in sports.

http://info.wSportsJournalists.com/college/lessonplans/law_lp2.pdf

 

https://www.presidentschallenge.org/challenge/physical/benchmarks.shtml

According to the guidelines to receive the President's Challenge award -- I presume we all remember that from our school days -- a person must be in the 85th percentile for the age and gender. Some sample events and the standards each group must reach:

MILE RUN
13-year-old boy: 6:50
17-year-old girl: 8:15

PUSH-UPS
13-year-old boy: 39
17-year-old girl: 25

SHUTTLE RUN
13-year-old boy: 9.5 seconds
17-year-old girl: 10.0 seconds

Yeah, no inherent physical advantage whatsoever.