Girls Basketball Team Kicked Out Of Boys League Championship After Defeating Boys Teams
Girls Basketball Team Kicked Out Of Boys League Championship After Defeating Boys Teams
Oh, come on.
A 6th grade girls team from Kentucky was set to go for the year-end championship tournament, but was told they were banned due to fears boys teams might 'retaliate' if they lost to the girls team.
"...what we have worried about is a boys team is losing to a girls team (especially in a year end tourney) they may get frustrated and retaliate against a girl," a text allegedly sent by the tournament directors reads.
"Throughout the season we had a few teams come to us about this and raise concerns about it. Because of this we decided to keep them out of the tournament," another text reads.
Oh, so the teams were threatening to commit violence against the girls. Why not just kick those teams out?
That's not why they were kicked out. The coach lied, to get them playing in the boys league, since they were so good.
So of course they got kicked out. What you expect the league to do?He explained:
"In November of 2023, Next Level and Larry McGraw deceptively registered a girls team into the 6th grade boys league and under the gender listed as MALE."
"We entered them into the league assuming they were a boys’ team as conveniently no roster was ever provided."
"Subsequently, their first game was filled in by a boys 6th grade Next Level team because they played the 6th grade boys Cincinnati Royals team - coached by myself, so there was no reason to suspect anything different."He continued:
"It wasn’t until late January/early February that several teams from the 6th-grade division started traveling down to Kentucky to play their scheduled games, that it became apparent that the Next Level team was, in fact, a girls team."
"Several complaints from coaches and teams were filed because of this deception."Social media users, however, saw SWOB's statement as deflecting from another issue, one that accused the league of trying to keep their feelings from getting hurt in the event the boys were defeated by girls.
So the league decided to preemptively retaliate on behalf of the hypothetical violent boys?
One of top posts here is selective as fuxk quoting only the president's backpedalling after their official initi statement being the fear of retaliation. I'm getting way too annoyed watching the upvotes (aka misinformation) grow just because this asshat added a quote.
Oh by the way, sunderman.- the president - coached one of the boy teams that played against the girls team. And they are trying to say it took time to realize, to justify why they were allowed to play up until the championships. FFS this is garbage sportmanship
(Edited to correct autocorrect)
More sources that go into depth on what happened and the fallout ...
https://www.rawstory.com/next-level-basketball/
https://www.wvxu.org/sports/2024-03-04/kentucky-girls-basketball-team-banned-southwestern-ohio
And maybe this is why the girls were shut down ... On Feb 28 in an event in Alabama the girl's team, who were forced to play in the boy's league, won the championship but the trophy went to the losers instead.
Can relate. I was beat up by another kid of my age after practice because I beat him in a really small and unimportant Judo tournament. We were both 12 and his parents, my parents and the trainers all agreed that he just overreacted because he was scared the other boys would bully him. I switched to ballet afterwards.
Better to prepare those boys for all of the ass-whoopings women will serve them in their future professional careers, no?
My favorite sport to watch is girls volleyball...I don't like to watch sports in general
Most people treat me like a creep when I bring it up, but it's way more dynamic and interesting than men's volleyball. I used to scorekeep the sport, women's volleyball is just more entertaining
IDGAF about basketball to start with, but if the boys can't compete we should throw them by the wayside. I don't get why this is even a question
cue counterstrike audio: "Terrorists Win"
Of course you can play with the boys!
No not like that - you have to let them beat you!
That makes perfect sense - only
grown-ass adultswhittle gurls could ever be afraid that someone might lose a game!Nice.
So it basically boils down to this.
We as Kentuckians realized we failed as parents at a state wide level therefore we will continue to be shit parents and ban the girls for having better parents to appease the shitty parents and their shittily raised boys so they don't get a bruised ego for failing as parents and humans.
Again, very nice.
Sunderman should have kicked them out for lying, not out of "concern" for the potential behavior of boys. As soon as he made that claim he went into the wrong. If the boys can't behave properly then kick them out. It's like how a gal shouldn't have to worry about being raped because of what she is or isn't wearing or doing or not doing. We're telling females what to do or not to do and not males what to do or not do.
If the 6th grade boys teams might retaliate because they lost a game, they got some shitty coaches that haven't instilled a sense of sportsmanship into them.
Sounds like the boys forfeit and the girls won
Typical "alpha male" response
I sort of realize that if I was on a team of guys and learned that we were going to face a team of girls, it'd be a lose-lose scenario. Either we beat up a bunch of girls trying their best, and "celebrate" over defeating a group that has (on average) physical strength disadvantages, OR we're mocked for losing to girls.
The premise of most athletic competitions would be that it's a fight on generally equal footing. Either way that becomes imbalanced, it can perhaps ruin the feeling. Still sucks that the girls didn't get to demonstrate themselves there.