Posted on 09/27/2013 10:41:59 AM PDT by Utilizer
Two boys playing on a girls’ volleyball team at a New York high school could see their playing time spiked when league officials consider modifying a rule that allows them to play with the fairer sex.
Seniors Andrew Lafortezza and Jason Elbaum both played for the co-ed volleyball club last season at Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua. But due to budgetary constraints, the Quakers were unable to field a boys’ team this year, prompting the teens to seek a spot on the girls’ squad, which they earned after receiving approval from league officials in August.
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Kim Cleary, the boys’ volleyball coach at Suffern High School, took issue with Kuczma’s characterization that the boys do not dominate play. In 2007, she was an assistant coach on a girls’ team that played against another team with a boy on its roster and the result wasn’t favorable for Cleary.
“Having coached both boys and girls and being around this sport for 20 years, I can attest that it absolutely makes a difference,” she told FoxNews.com. “Even if they’re not hitting at the front, they’re blocking at the front of the net. There’s absolutely no reason Horace Greeley couldn’t have formed a team and been part of our league. Those two boys are taking two spots from two girls.”
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NET, not hoop.......hoops be in basketball......
Not at all. My daughter plays professional basketball in Europe. Her girls 8th grade team crushed the boys team. Girls can play. if a girl can play on the boys team, it is because of her skill. No lowering of standards.
We had a coed intramural basketball league in college. Teams had to have no more than 3 men on the floor at a time. Men were not allowed inside the key on offense or defense, nor were they allowed to block shots or shoot free throws when fouled.
I didn’t play.
Oh. Quite right -thanks for catching that. :)
Oh, I forgot. But it's perfectly acceptable to gut our Military by such standards.
My taxes should not be designed to be someone else's "benefits".
Good catch!
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