Girl, 12, told she can't play ball with boys - Truckers' Trucking Forum | Message Board

leannamarie · **^ Top** #1 05.26.2008

Girl, 12, told she can't play ball with boys

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You play ball like a girl.

That used to be an insult. In Beaverton, Oregon, it's becoming more like a fantasy.

Jaime Nared, a 12-year-old girl who stands 6-foot-1, has been told she can no longer play on the boys team of which she has been a member since the second grade, according to a report on the Web site of The Oregonian. Curiously, the timing of her ban came in the wake of a 30-point effort against an all-boys team.
"She scored 30 points," Jaime's mom, Reiko Williams, told The Oregonian. "I remember one play. She stole the ball, dribbled up court and made a behind-the-back pass to a teammate. He missed the lay-in, and she grabbed the rebound and put it in. I think it was just too much for some of those parents.
"The next day, she came home and said they wouldn't let her play with the boys anymore."
Last month, a group of parents from an opposing team told management at The Hoop, a private Beaverton basketball facility that runs the league in which Nared's team competes, that they didn't like Nared playing against their sons. Hoop officials then told Nared's coach, Michael Abraham, that she could no longer play, citing a league rule that prohibits mixed-gender teams, the newspaper reported.
"I never saw the rule," said Abraham, who has coached basketball for 32 years.
"If I'd known about it, I wouldn't have put any of my teams in the league. Besides, she's been playing on this team since second grade, and she plays on our team when we travel around the region. There's never been any problem in any event, not one word of complaint."
Neal Franzer, The Hoop's director of operations, told the paper that parents were "adamant" their complaints had nothing to do with Jaime's skills.
"They said the problem was the boys were playing differently against her because she was a girl," Franzer said, according to the paper. "They'd been taught to not push a girl, so they weren't fouling her hard, and the focus had shifted from playing basketball to noticing a girl was on the floor with them.
"The rule may not have been enforced in past years," Franzer said. "We have new management this year. It's policy, and we enforce policy."
Nared, however, had a different take.
"I think the boys on a specific team don't like me," she said. "It doesn't seem fair."
Abraham was also skeptical about the ruling. "I can't think of one boy that we've played against that's had a problem with her," he said. "Maybe their dads do. Teach the boys how to handle her. Front her, deny her the ball. You sure as hell don't complain. Listen, she's a girl's girl, but she plays tough. She's no cupcake. She gets knocked down and takes a charge."[LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link.

truckermario · **^ Top** #2 05.26.2008

Now substitute "girl" for "black" or "asian".

Baack · **^ Top** #3 05.26.2008

I can understand in that they cant play an aggressive game with her, and that creates a problem being competitive and getting other teams to play against them
There was a young lady who decided to play on Ryan's team when they were 12, it turned out not to be a big problem.
They just didn't play her

Scarecrow03 · **^ Top** #4 05.26.2008

She's 12 years old. It's time to start preparing her for adulthood. Get her off the basketball court and put her in Home Ec. She'll be a woman soon, and will need to know how to cook and clean.

Baack · **^ Top** #5 05.26.2008

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Originally Posted by Scarecrow03

She's 12 years old. It's time to start preparing her for adulthood. Get her off the basketball court and put her in Home Ec. She'll be a woman soon, and will need to know how to cook and clean.

Ouch crow
Fortunately woman have outlived their cooking and cleaning thing
Sure some families like to live in a traditional lifestyle
Woman in my opinion have earned the right to equality, we are all made differently and that should be taken into the equation
But you cant expect to jump into a guys game and expect all peachy treatment
Keeping the boys and girls games separate doesn't mean we are going back to the past to the race riot thinking

Scarecrow03 · **^ Top** #6 05.26.2008

Sometimes I dunno which is worse. My sick sense of humor, or my lack of ability to keep it to myself.

You are right, Baack.

Roadmedic · **^ Top** #7 05.26.2008

I have mixed feelings about this.

1. Why if they had a rule for just boys, did they let her play in the first place.?

2. Is the reason she is asked to leave because she is better than the boys?

3. I also wonder as Scarecrow, home ec, because when I was in school, there were separate sports programs for each sex.

Ronnocomot · **^ Top** #8 05.26.2008

If this gal was from the compound of FLDS down in Texas, she'd be getting hitched about now.

Scarecrow03 · **^ Top** #9 05.26.2008

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Originally Posted by Ronnocomot

If this gal was from the compound of FLDS down in Texas, she'd be getting hitched about now.

Now THAT beats the hell outta my joke.

ssbowles · **^ Top** #10 05.26.2008

What a load of crap! A girl beat Johnnie on the b-ball court, so now Mommie and Daddie are gonna save the world for him? And what was the lame excuse about her being a girl and the boys didn't foul her as hard? WTF?? So if she was another boy, it wold've been okay to knock her block off then? Oh Lord, this is too funny. The poor boys got their rear-ends handed to 'em by a girl and Mommy and Daddy can't handle it. Priceless.

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