Hurt Girls (NTTimes on another downside to Title IX)
Former Member
Anyone catch the NY Times Sunday Magazine Article "Hurt Girls" two weeks ago which posited the politically incorrect fact that female athletes propelled by Title IX are ending up as physical wrecks by the time they are young adults? Dealing mostly with girls in soccer, lacrosse, and basketball, there were some hard figures showing, for example, that female athletes in soccer get ACT tears at five times the rate of males. (As expected, swimming did not come up as a source of injury). Most of the letters published this week in response were the reflexive defense of Title IX by the Title IX athletic establishment.
Our HS has intramural basketball. There is club soccer, club basketball(AAU), club volleyball, club track, club swimming, club baseball and softball. All big bucks, all lots of time spent, all much better coaching then you get from the rec league coaching(I was a rec league coach I can say that).
Since I have a very uncompetitive daughter(misses her heats because she is laughing and talking to the timers before a race) she now does no sport but rec swimming, because at the HS level there is no other offering besides club. She does not mind, as she has gotten into theater, and the arts. She auditioned and got a small part in a summer musical, and you want to talk about time.....6:30-9:30 every evening, and tech week will be worse. However, it is her choice, and she is having a lot of fun with it.
She loves to swim, and I can see in a couple of years she will be a great masters swimmer!
Our HS has intramural basketball. There is club soccer, club basketball(AAU), club volleyball, club track, club swimming, club baseball and softball. All big bucks, all lots of time spent, all much better coaching then you get from the rec league coaching(I was a rec league coach I can say that).
Since I have a very uncompetitive daughter(misses her heats because she is laughing and talking to the timers before a race) she now does no sport but rec swimming, because at the HS level there is no other offering besides club. She does not mind, as she has gotten into theater, and the arts. She auditioned and got a small part in a summer musical, and you want to talk about time.....6:30-9:30 every evening, and tech week will be worse. However, it is her choice, and she is having a lot of fun with it.
She loves to swim, and I can see in a couple of years she will be a great masters swimmer!
