Disagree here.. if girls want to play football they need to start their own school league. Nothing against the girls abilities but this is nothing more than apeasement and political correctness.
Separate but equal? I'm thinking if the coach doesn't think she can take it, he wouldn't let her play. Women's sports are notoriously underfunded...why not let the one girl who can play with the boys have a shot? I haven't read the story yet, but I bet she has brothers.
I think it’s likely she has the ability to play at the booys’ level but am concerned that she might be injured in her sensitive area during a hard tackle. But QBs don’t take as many hard tackles as other positions.And on second thought, males have their sensitive areas too.
I’ve seen a HS girl play hockey on the boys team (no girls team available at that school) and there are a lot of young men -on the opposing teams- that wish she would go play with the girls too. She led the team in scoring, and in penalty minutes. She played tough but generally fair, didn’t take anything from anyone about being the only girl on the ice. If she (the qb) can hack it, fine.
The coach said several girls tried out, and this girl was the only one to meet the standard...I agree that the level of athletic ability should not be lowered, but if a girl can meet those goals, she shouldn’t be automatically rejected....
pure bunk I officiated football from Pee Wee through HS and one of the hardest hitters until she hit 9th grade was a girl. She was a team player, cute as a button and totally understood the game. The Freshman coach wanted her to try out but her mom wouldn't let her. Tried to recruit her for my karate school at that point. I asked her coach in Youth league why she didn't put her ponytail under her jersey and he told me he asked her to but she told him she wanted people she knocked down to know that "a girl put them on their butt" as she walked away from them. She was awesome.
Be careful of what you wish for....Many schools today are hard up for cash and considering terminating their athletic programs completely or forcing the parents to pay for play.
To force a school to create a female football program under Title IX could very easy push them over the line and make them decide to terminate existing programs.
If females can make the boys football team then let them play. As the story says, only 523 girls have attempted to play football in Fla since 1973 so it's not as if there is a flood of them demanding to join their boys teams.....