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Where's the sportsmanship? Girl disqualified for wearing bracelet (Jerk coach of the year award)
SI.com ^ | May 11, 2010 | Dave Wielenga

Posted on 05/11/2010 8:50:13 PM PDT by Roberts

Remember the story of the college softball player who hit the game-winning homer and blew out her knee as she trotted around first base, but was carried to second, third and home by opposing players -- even though she represented the decisive run in a game that determined the championship?

This is not that story.

This is the story of a high school pole vaulter whose successful leap in the last event won the meet and the league championship for her team -- until an opposing coach pointed out she should be disqualified for breaking a rule, reversing the outcome so that his team captured victory and the league title.

The girl's infraction? Wearing a friendship bracelet.

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"This is my 30th year coaching track," Knowles said a few days later. "I know a lot of rules and regulations."

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South Pasadena coach P.J. Hernandez was dumbfounded.

"I said, 'Coach [Knowles], you really want it to come down to this?' " Hernandez recalled.

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"It's unfortunate, that's all I can say," Knowles said. "It's unfortunate for the young lady. But you've got to teach the kids that rules are rules."

(Excerpt) Read more at sportsillustrated.cnn.com ...


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To: Roberts

The coach stole his victory. A true sportsman would’ve respected the true outcome of the meet and then pointed it out to the young lady afterwards. Rules like this are meant especially for necklaces or watches that can cause injury.

This happened when I was coaching Little League years ago. During a championship game, a coach got confused about the rules of maximum innings a pitcher can pitch in 2 consecutive games. As he was conferring with the assistant, the young pitcher unknowingly took the mound to warm up. The opposing coach sat in wait and let the kid take his warm-up then notified the umpire before the other confused coach knew what happened. The game was forfeited and the clever coach who used the rules to his advantage rather than notifying the other coach (which is what I would’ve done) made a foolish scene in front of a bunch of 10 and 11 year old kids. He won a very empty victory. I can’t stand coaches who use this kind of gamesmanship. I always took satisfaction in defeating jerks like that.


21 posted on 05/11/2010 10:15:56 PM PDT by untwist
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To: Roberts

I have two words: Pine tar.


22 posted on 05/11/2010 10:54:35 PM PDT by sand lake bar
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To: Roberts

This sounds like something that high school football coach Vernon Dozier would pull, on behalf of Bel Mar Academy. It won’t be long before we hear that Steve Bosell has called his attorney, Dolores Blasingame, and filed a lawsuit. Next, we’ll hear about Jay Santos and the Citizens Auxiliary Police searching the athletes for contraband jewelry and all that kinda deal.


23 posted on 05/11/2010 11:04:24 PM PDT by kerosene
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To: Roberts

The only thing that coach and team won was a bad reputation.

They will forever have to live with being a joke, a stigma that will follow the team for years.

A championship only has value based upon its legitimacy. If everyone knows it was granted based upon an obscure technicality the championship loses all value.

He and his team won a medal made of Fool’s Gold.


24 posted on 05/12/2010 2:36:56 AM PDT by Outrance
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To: dfwgator

Robin is still 17 y/o.


25 posted on 05/12/2010 2:41:46 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: AZLiberty

Do we have a good image of the gizmo that got her disqualified ?


26 posted on 05/12/2010 3:06:25 AM PDT by PLMerite (Ride to the sound of the Guns - I'll probably need help.)
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To: Roberts

There are reasons for these rules. A girl in our neighborhood was wearing a ring and bounded into the dugout while slapping it with her hands. The ring got caught on the edge of the roof and completely peeled the skin from her finger.


27 posted on 05/12/2010 3:08:13 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (The Obama magic is <strike>fading</strike>gone.)
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To: YHAOS

I would personally not accept the trophy, or medal for this sort of a “win”. It is meaningless as a win and in no way reflects the reality of what actually occurred on the field of play in this instance.


28 posted on 05/12/2010 3:19:05 AM PDT by 101voodoo
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To: This Just In

Exactly what I was thinking......she was in heats way before it came down to the wire.


29 posted on 05/12/2010 3:58:51 AM PDT by panthermom
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To: Roberts

Mike Knowles has quite a few skeletons in his past.

And an Obama voter...

http://www.insidesocal.com/paspreps/2009/01/muir-track-field-longtime-coac.html


30 posted on 05/12/2010 4:13:45 AM PDT by Enduring Freedom (Socialists are not inspired by success and achievement - they are diminished in its presence.)
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To: Enduring Freedom
Obama!


31 posted on 05/12/2010 4:17:26 AM PDT by Enduring Freedom (Socialists are not inspired by success and achievement - they are diminished in its presence.)
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To: Right Wing Assault
"A girl in our neighborhood was wearing a ring and bounded into the dugout while slapping it with her hands. The ring got caught on the edge of the roof and completely peeled the skin from her finger."

Funny you should mention that. While on cruise aboard the LPD Coronado, I was going down a ladder when one of my feet slipped out from under me. To keep myself from falling, I reached up above the hatch coaming to catch myself. My ring got caught on the coaming edge and, just for a second, I dangled there until I could get my feet back under me on the ladder.

It tore my finger up pretty badly, but kept me from probably more serious injury from falling backward onto the ladder and then down eight feet or so to the next deck.

32 posted on 05/12/2010 4:20:46 AM PDT by BlueLancer (I'm getting a fine tootsy-frootsying right here...)
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To: BlueLancer

It is called being “degloved.” That is why we are told not to wear jewelry aboard ship.


33 posted on 05/12/2010 4:24:13 AM PDT by wxgesr (I want to be the first person to surf on another planet.)
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To: sand lake bar
I have two words: Pine tar.

I was thinking the same thing.

34 posted on 05/12/2010 4:26:33 AM PDT by kevkrom (De-fund Obamacare in 2011, repeal in 2013!)
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To: Roberts

If the infraction was observable before and just up to the start of the compitition and NOT pointed out I’d leave things as they were.


35 posted on 05/12/2010 5:05:58 AM PDT by TalBlack
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To: Roberts

I hope this coach in future keeps his athletes within the rules. If I was a coach in the same league I would memorize the rule book and use it against him at any and every opportunity.


36 posted on 05/12/2010 5:36:49 AM PDT by Timocrat
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To: GunsAndBibles

Leftists USE rules, they don’t abide by them.


37 posted on 05/12/2010 5:39:05 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: untwist

Yes, coach is a jerk and played the lawyer role to steal a victory.

I can’t believe that people on this site are defending this.

The bracelet (which is really a rubberband) had nothing to do with this girl winning the event.

The meet officials should have pointed out the uniform infraction before she competed. That some loser coach calls this out to bring his team a victory is wrong. He claims that he did not notice the rubberband until after she jumped. She should have claimed that she put it on after her vault. But, I am guessing she has more class that this loser coach.


38 posted on 05/12/2010 5:42:01 AM PDT by lombardalq
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To: Roberts

My kids ran track in High School. It is in the rule books and for a reason. SAFTEY! Simple as that. She knew better.


39 posted on 05/12/2010 6:20:35 AM PDT by 70th Division (I love my country but fear my government!)
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To: Roberts

I don’t know where I stand on this. I have never judged pole vault but I have spend quite a few years judging the discus. I always checked athletes for legal atire before they stepped into the circle in the first round. It’s not required but it prevented a lot of problems.


40 posted on 05/12/2010 6:33:58 AM PDT by baldeagle390
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