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A Christian youth sports league decided today it will not allow a 13-year-old girl to play on her school's boys' basketball team.
The 8-2 telephone vote immediately prompted Westside Christian School in Largo to quit the Suncoast Christian Conference rather than kick Aliyah Farley off the junior varsity Warriors team.
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Where is the story here? The team plays in an official athletic conference. They don't allow girls on boys teams. It has nothing to do with PE classes. There weren't enough girls to field an all girls team. They asked for a waiver and were denied. End of story. No bias whatsoever. Unnecessary space to take up in the paper. The St. Pete Times needs to find some real news to write about.
Posted by: Pony Boy | December 12, 2008 at 12:10 AM
Don't put up with anymore of this garbage. If the school board won't let them be in the same locker room or hotel room on a road trip, they should not play on the same team. I guess that the next thing these jerks will do is try to tell us that boys and girls should share locker rooms too.
I do not feel bad for the girl. She and her parents and the Westside coach ALLOWED and probably encouraged her to be used this way. Same on all of them. Why don't the gender neutral crowd want mini-men to play on the girl's squads?
Posted by: Naughty Niebuhr | December 11, 2008 at 08:11 AM
Our society is going bonkers.
If certain groups with that certain idealology get their total way with things, we will all be unisex with no gender. Sickening.
Posted by: ArmChairQB | December 11, 2008 at 07:05 AM
She should be allowed only if there isn't a girls team.
Posted by: Bill | December 10, 2008 at 11:35 PM
who cares,if a girl can make your boys high school team,you suck anyway.
Posted by: wooden otb | December 10, 2008 at 11:25 PM
All of the stories printed and shown are making it sound like Mr. Preslicka took this action on his own. First of all he can not nor would he make a sweeping decision for this conference. Also please keep in mind that these are private christian schools where the rules are different and these parents made the choice to send thier children there. I feel that the media has shown this all in a very one sided manner rather than asking any number of parents with both sons and daughters in SCC. I feel bad for this young lady. I'm sure she did not know she would be used in this fashion. There are any number of other schools that would have openly welcomed her onto thier girls team while still allowing her to attend Westside. What a shame her school administrator couldnt see that but instead made the choice to to take our christian values and turn them into fuel for those who would criticize our faith and beliefs. Shame on them. I think girls are great athletes and should compete in whatever sport they choose as long as it is with other young ladies and not young men.
Posted by: amom | December 10, 2008 at 11:24 PM
Can a boy play on the girl's volleyball team? NO, but there is always a girl trying to play boys sports.Boys and girls are not physically equivalent so why should they equally compete? Girls basketball plays with a smaller ball for a reason. Even the WNBA acknowledges that!
Posted by: John Smith | December 10, 2008 at 05:44 PM