How can they require the girls to join the boy’s league & then not honor the results? Something absolutely insane is going on in this world today.
Yeah, this is crazy, something is going on that they're not telling telling us about. Maybe they weren't girls.? Nowadays you never know.....
>> Something absolutely insane is going on in this world today.
Good morning! You just noticed? :-)
I violated the FR Prime Directive and read the article. The girls were from a competitive league and had been playing together for three years. Due to issues around practice facilities, they were moved to a boys recreational league so that they could continue to practice and compete together. Come tournament time, the girls were told they would not be awarded the trophy if they won. If they played in the season and tourney, I say give them the trophy or make better decisions at the start of the season.
That said, when I played basketball in middle school. We were terrible. Our girls team won their league championships over those years. We lost every game we played save one. We beat our girls basketball team, but it was uncomfortably close.
Because the parents of the boys are embarrassed that their kids got beat by “a bunch of little girls“. Sports parents…
I'm sure there are valid reasons. The girls team is a travel team that had been together for three years and didn't go through the draft selection process to build the team. Rec teams typically require everyone that signs up gets picked and everyone plays a minimum amount of time. The girls team skipped that process entirely. One could say it was unfair to the boys for that reason. Anyway, the girls team was told before the season tournament that they could play in the championship but could not claim the championship, so it wasn't like this was just sprung on them after winning.
The article says the rec dept. will recognize the girls in some way and all will be fine. But really this is more a story about how bending one rule at the beginning of a process leveraged itself all the way down the line causing the Rec. dept a bad look for being accomodating.