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It is amazing to me that in society the concept of fair is extraordinarly hard to implement.
What also makes me infuriated is that the number of scholarships being offered to women, multitudes of those are going to foreign players rather than home grown students who could use an education just as much as a female Russian tennis player (BTW, check out the roster of most of the D-I programs in tennis, lots of foreign players).
Why can't they just give scholarships proportionally based on applications/interest in sports. If more women try out at a school, give more scholarships to women. Can all-girls/all-boys schools legally even field a sports team?
Can we paleeze get the federal government out of education?? And all this stupidity would go away.
The solution may be for people at the grassroots level to instigate change when needed. But don't hold your breath.
High School Students who play Soccer, Volleyball, Hockey, Lacrosse or Rugby cannot get a lettermans jacket. They have to be considered a club sport. What is the reasoning for that. It is not like the schools are not giving girls soccer, volleyball and even lacrosse teams The school would give them rugby football and hockey teams if girls were interested in them.
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3 girls at the school I attend are on full girls rowing scholarships and never even heard of the sport before being recruited for it at a HS Track event.
Its pathetic.
Title 9 has been terrible. I went to 1 year of HS in Utah, then moved to CA to finish. I played boys volleyball, which was fairly well supported, and went on to play in college. Now, my boys won't even have that chance here in Utah - despite the fact the BYU has one of the top men's programs in the country. Very sad indeed.
I am a female college athlete... and I definitely appreciate my scholarship, but I feel bad for boys who can't play the same sport as me because all of the scholarships are "used up" on the football team.