Jacob Stevens was looking forward to
playing his senior season on the girl’s field hockey team. As of Tuesday night,
however, that won’t be able to happen.
On Tuesday night the East Lansing School
Board unanimously decided to ban boys from girls’ sports teams. The ban will
take effect immediately. The sports teams included in the ban are girl’s field
hockey, softball and volleyball.
“I don’t think it is fair,” said Stevens.
“I enjoy playing the game and I haven’t
had any of the other female players on the team complain about my being there,”
Stevens said.
Officials cited safety reasons for the ban.
“I just don’t believe the sexes should be
mixed in this case. The boys are just too big and physical and it intimidates
the girls on the team,” said school board member Jane Tribitt.
Some however, think that the ban could
have undesirable consequences for the sports teams.
High school Athletic Director Hugh Baker
said he is concerned that with the ban the teams will be forced to forfeit games when
the opposing team has both boys and girls on it and therefore not do well in
the long run.
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