College Football:Female kicker can't try out for football team

The Cincinnati Enquirer ^ | April 19, 2003 | AP staff writer

[yankeedame]

Saturday, April 19, 2003

Female kicker can't try out for football team

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By The Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS - Minnesota's football team barred the younger sister of former kicker Dan Nystrom from trying out.

"It's men's college football, and it is not a co-ed sport," assistant athletic director Tim Allen told the Star Tribune of Minneapolis.

Mary Nystrom didn't return phone messages left by The Associated Press on Friday. Dan Nystrom could not be reached for comment.

Mary, a junior, followed her brother as a kicker in high school and wanted to try to do the same in college after spotting the football team's ad seeking a "quality kicker/punter."

The Gophers aren't obligated to give her a tryout because schools can prohibit women from participating in men's contact sports. Once a woman is allowed to participate, she must be treated equally.

Last year, New Mexico's Katie Hnida became the first woman to play in an NCAA Division I-A game when her extra-point attempt was blocked against UCLA in the Las Vegas Bowl.

Other teams have had women on their rosters.

"I'm a little disappointed," Mary Nystrom told the newspaper. "I don't know why I couldn't (try out). But I'm not going to fight it. It's not that big a deal."

Nystrom said more than 20 kickers showed up for the tryout. She said she was allowed to kick on her own, without being part of the official tryout.

She said she can make kicks from 40 yards.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I say let her become a kicker.

Then the male holder can pull the football out from under her... AAAAUGH!!

[Slyfox]

The Gophers aren't obligated to give her a tryout because schools can prohibit women from participating in men's contact sports.

But, I thought kickers didn't get tackled.

The Canadian Hockey League had a woman goalie who could repel the snot off a penguin.

[Sonny M]

If you allow women to be kickers in football, you are taking away the job of an illegal immigrant who snuck over the border to take the job of being a kicker. Your view is anti-immigrant. It is the job of our proud kickers to take away the jobs of americans, not the other way around. Whats next, soon we'll require our kickers to actually know the rules of football? Maybe even go so far as to require them to speak english? This jingoism is scary.

[freedumb2003]

Correction: He made SOME women less physically strong than SOME men.

Correction to the correction:He made MOST women less physically strong than most men

There are still lots of white athletes, so they won't be riding the pine any more or less with or without women "athletes."

[Newbomb Turk]

If Rick Neuheisel had let Katie Hnida kick in ( I recall ) 1999 CU would have likely beat Nebraska. We would have never lived that down.

[cherry]

"I'm going into education, and one of the things I believe in is encouraging kids of all ages, male and female, to try stuff -- whether you're nervous or scared or if you don't think you have a possibility of making it,'' she said.

oh, yeah, does she sound like a real terrible person, now doesn't she?

geesh....

[WFTR]

I applaud Minnesota for making the right decision. There must come a time when we realize that men and women are different and that we can and should acknowledge that difference in public policy. Just because someone is physically able to do something doesn't make it the right thing to do.

WFTR
Bill

[freedumb2003]

Why don't you read my entire post next time instead of just the first sentence?

Sorry -- I wasn't impugning your post, rather augmenting it. Yours is a good point and a good way to kill Title IX once and for all. If everything was trans-gender then Title IX would have nothing upon which to place its hat.

Sorry -- next time I'll credit your very good suggestion before launching on my diatribe.

[Timesink]

If this were a pro team, or some Pop Warner deal with a bunch of teenagers, I'd say give her a chance. If there's any position in which a female would face zero threat from other more powerful players that could potentially hurt her by accident, it's a place kicker. I'd say let her try, and if she was any good, let her go for it.

But given the amount of living hell and destroyed dreams the feminist groups and the federal government has forced down the throats of men's Division I collge sports in the name of the Almighty Title IX, utterly annihilating many of them in the process (example: WVU was just forced by the Title IX Feminazis to drop five sports ENTIRELY: Women's gymnastics, women's tennis, men's tennis, the rifle team and men's track, purely in order to conform to the federal government's demand of "equality of RESULT" in the ratio of males to females participating in on-campus sports), I can't say I feel to bad about a single female at another school getting a taste of what her so-called saviors in the NOW crowd have done to her.

[rintense]

I don't. If you have the skills, you should get a shot, regardless of your sex. Of course, I have history. I wanted to be the place kicker on our high school team, but the coach- my softball coach, said hell no because he didn't want me to get hurt and not play softball. I was the only girl to ever kick a 30 yard field goal in powderpuff (I was also the quarterback).

[rintense]

LOL!

[Tribune7]

If you have the skills, you should get a shot, regardless of your sex.

Then you do object to gender discrimination in sports. So, why am I ineligibile for a full scholarship to the girls field hockey team?

[Senator Pardek]

So, why am I ineligibile for a full scholarship to the girls field hockey team?

These teams should always cull the best human, not male/female.

Having said that, it should work both ways. I would have made a pretty good point guard on my HS girls' basketball team, and I would have batted .700 on the softball team instead of .300 for the baseball team.

[rintense]

Do you play field hockey? I suggest you try out and see. When I was in high school, we had a girl playing goalie on the hockey team, and a guy trying out for volleyball. That was in the mid 80s.

[F16Fighter]

"Yeah let's put her on the football team where she can have her t*ts sqaushed or smeared into the playing field by the six 250 lb linemen that takle her."

LMAO...

Can I nominate Gloria Allred?

[Tribune7]

Actually, gender discrimination makes a whole lot of sense in team sports. It's just that the idiot feminists -- rintense I do not mean you -- think the door should swing just one way.

In most cases, its best one should just check their ego -- in this case the ladies -- and let things be.

[Tribune7]

That's high school. I want to be eligible for a full scholarship to a college team. :-)

[IrishBrigade12]

The trouble with guys trying out for field hockey is the fact they have to wear skirts for uniformity...I can't speak for today's boys, but in the mid-60's when I was a teenager a guy doing that couldn't have come back to school and survived...not ever. Of course, when I was in high school we didn't have girls varsity programs and we somehow managed to to scrape by without starting World War III...

[LurkerNoMore!]

I would have made a pretty good point guard on my HS girls' basketball team

That's kinda gay.