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Advice column takes on Title IX and gender stereotypes
by Title IX Blog
posted November 4, 2010 at 8:15pm

Part of the "Ask Amy" column in today's Washington Post addressed the Title IX implications of a coach requiring a player to conform to gender stereotypes with respect to appearance: DEAR AMY: I am a girl in my junior year of high school, and the vol...more

Reshanda "Too Tall" Gray down to two schools
by They're Playing Basketball
posted November 4, 2010 at 12:20pm

Highly-sought Los Angeles forward/center Reshanda Gray has narrowed her choices to two schools, according to her club ball coach: Cal and USC. The 6-foot-3 Gray, ranked 22nd in her class and eighth at her position by ESPN, has entertained countless offers...more

GRO Mail: Emily Headson
by Girls Riders Organization, Inc.
posted November 3, 2010 at 8:34pm

“My daughters name is Emily Headson. She is 5 years old and has been skateboarding for 3 years. She skated in her first contest this past weekend at The Ghetto Skate facility in Dade City FL. They have a 3 foot mini bowl where the contest was held. Em...more

Want to know the story behind 8-year-old Regan Henning?
by The Barrel Racing Blog
posted November 2, 2010 at 7:44pm

When Regan Henning and Story Tellen Flower broke through the timers in the Coliseum, the duo crossed into barrel racing stardom. Running a 14.6 against some of the top pros in the industry and shutting off the clock faster than any barrel racer in rec...more

Boys playing field hockey
by Title IX Blog
posted November 2, 2010 at 6:18pm

Boys playing high school field hockey on historically all-girls' teams has caused the occasional flare-up in the gender equity/Title IX discourse.I came across this article about a not-quite-a flare-up last month. I probably wouldn't have paid too much at...more

Developing Physically Active Girls: Pecha Kucha Style
by Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport
posted November 1, 2010 at 11:25pm

Tucker Center Associate Director, Dr. Nicole M. LaVoi, has put together a Pecha Kucha video presentation on “Developing Physically Active Girls”. Pecha Kucha is a 20 slide x 20 seconds (6:40 mn) presentation format in which the slides advance auto...more

4 reasons our children should play sports (Or my love letter to athletics)
by Coach Dawn Writes
posted November 1, 2010 at 5:06pm

source Only about 5 percent of high school athletes continue to play in college. Some get partial scholarships, but no more than 1 percent of high school athletes, representing just the top layer of national-caliber players, get full scholarships. –...more

Including transgender athletes on school teams: A story we will hear more often
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted November 1, 2010 at 3:52pm

Outsports.com has just posted a story about a player on the George Washington University women’s basketball team who identifies as a man. The story is Kye Allums’ public coming out as a transgender man. The team and coach have known of and accepted K...more

LA Westchester League
by They're Playing Basketball
posted October 31, 2010 at 6:42pm

Professional basketball skills trainer Sherrise Smith has run a fall league at the Westchester Recreation Center in Los Angeles since 2006. Recently I checked it out.There are 6-8 teams comprised of players from both public and private schools. Smith said...more

LGBT student athletes taking on homophobia in college athletics
by Pat Griffin's LGBT Sport Blog
posted October 31, 2010 at 4:00pm

I am really excited by several recent news reports about LGBT and ally student athlete led groups on college campuses. Groups at Eastern Michigan, Yale and UPenn have all been featured in recent stories. Other schools that have organized similar groups ...more

University of Portland cuts golf, Violates Title IX?
by Title IX Blog
posted October 30, 2010 at 8:18pm

University of Portland has announced plans to drop men's and women's golf, and to add women's crew. The article does not provide a reason for the cuts, other than to note that university officials claim the move was "not to cut costs." I'm not at all sur...more

Amber Gray will play immediately for Xavier
by They're Playing Basketball
posted October 30, 2010 at 2:03pm

Redshirt sophomore Amber Gray Eligible to Play Immediately NCAA Granted Gray's SLR WaiverOct. 29, 2010 CINCINNATI - Xavier women's basketball player redshirt sophomore Amber Gray has officially been given immediate eligibility to play this season by the N...more

Superintendents say the darndest things...
by Title IX Blog
posted October 29, 2010 at 6:58pm

And we wondered why schools needed a reminder of their obligation to protect students against sexual harassment and sex-based bullying? Here's one superintendent, actually complaining about the recent OCR guidance letter: "This is an incredible expansi...more

Hazing Has No Place in Sports
by One Sport Voice
posted October 29, 2010 at 3:03pm

Every week I hear stories from across the country about hazing in sport contexts. The recent attention nationally around bullying, including a stand from the White House, illustrates the seriousness of these issues and that social change is necessary. Her...more

What's On: The weekend in cross-country
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted October 29, 2010 at 2:53pm

Part 1:Conference Championships!It's conference championship weekend in college cross country.Flotrack has an XC Conference Central page, as does the coaches' association.Major conference action follows, in chronological order. Click on a team for a rac...more

Free admission for Saturday’s USC-Washington volleyball match
by Pretty Tough
posted October 28, 2010 at 7:14pm

If you live in Los Angeles or have spent any time here, you know how obsessive LA sports fans are. And you probably also know that there are two zealous camps of collegiate fans: the USC Trojans and UCLA Bruins. This weekend is a particularly big one f...more

‘Mandi’s March’ November 6th
by The First Line
posted October 28, 2010 at 6:34pm

Yale and Quinnipiac have banded together to support former Yale hockey player Mandi Schwartz in her battle against leukemia. The march will be from Quinnipiac’s sports center to Yale’s rink on Farmington Rails-to-Trails, and it will be followed that...more

A coach’s guide to creating harmony on a female team
by Coach Dawn Writes
posted October 27, 2010 at 6:09pm

source This is the second of three posts that I’ve put together for a myth busters series about women and athletics. Read Part One here. Mean girls. We’ve all heard that phrase and I worry that we all believe it on some levels. I’ve heard coac...more

Girls Sports – Mid season injury? 5 tips on how to cope and even capitalize
by Game On! Sports Camp 4 Girls
posted October 27, 2010 at 6:08pm

Your athlete is on a roll. She is contributing significantly, fulfilling her role on the team just as hoped. She is in to it. She is thriving. And then she goes down – the ankle, the wrist, or the knee. And she is out for weeks. Our nightmare. Seems ...more

How to Start a Softball Team
by Softball Performance Blog
posted October 27, 2010 at 5:52pm

Starting a New Team by Pete Sprenkle Author of A Softball Coaches Toolkit Your daughter comes home from school and announces that she and some of her friends want to play softball. There is no organized softball program in your community. What do you d...more

Why should you follow Cal women’s basketball? - California Golden Blogs
by Swish Appeal
posted October 27, 2010 at 5:13pm

Why Should You Follow Cal Women’s Basketball? - California Golden Blogs From SBN's California Golden Blogs: "In my brief time writing about Cal women’s hoops I’ve discovered that there’s a pretty decent amount of fans out there following Cal wo...more

Five preseason questions: How far can Vandersloot lead Gonzaga after losing 'irreplacable' seniors?
by Swish Appeal
posted October 26, 2010 at 9:24pm

Whatever pressure there is on the Gonzaga University women's basketball team to repeat last year's success, 5-foot-8 point guard Courtney Vandersloot will likely be shouldering a significant chunk of the burden. Vandersloot has already been named a p...more

OCR "Dear Colleague" letter addresses Title IX and bullying
by Title IX Blog
posted October 26, 2010 at 8:20pm

Today the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights sent letters of guidance to thousands of educational institutions across the country, reminding them of their obligation under Title IX and other civil rights laws to protect students from bullyi...more

Add Oklahoma State sophomore Toni Young to the list of college women that can dunk.
by Swish Appeal
posted October 26, 2010 at 8:14pm

Add Oklahoma State sophomore Toni Young to the list of college women that can dunk. She participated in the dunk contest at last weekend's Homecoming and Hoops celebration in Stillwater. Young averaged 7 points, 6.3 rebounds, and had a .521 shooting pe...more

Signing day is coming
by They're Playing Basketball
posted October 26, 2010 at 3:05pm

Signing day - Nov. 10 - is almost here. ESPN will run the 'top 100 of 2011' rankings of three sources this week, starting with today's installment by All-Star Girls Report.Pac-10 tip:ASU Coach Charli Turner Thorne is blogging now.Stanford has been picked ...more

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