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[QUOTE="CL82, post: 2636770, member: 44"]
I can't speak to your town, but here in NJ girls do compete in a broad array of sports.  There is considerable competition for 'select' and travel teams and even more so for AAU teams and school teams.  I don't think it is an "opportunity" issue.

I do think that athleticism can mask a lack of fundementals and at the end of the day, boys have more athleticism.  I also think that there is the trap of of thinking that if WCBB doesn't look like MCBB then it is flawed.  That's just uninformed.  It is a different sport.

I suspect that a part of the problem lies in schools accepting a mediocre product as being okay for WCBB.  You see that a lot.  Coaches who haven't produced but are kept on for far longer than a men's team head coach would be.  There the world of WCBB owe Geno and CD a world of thanks for showing us that you can expect excellence from female athletes.  They have raised the bar, and some say, well, that's not fair, let's even out all the teams so that it's "fair" or "even."  I will submit that that position is inherently misogynistic, in essence dismissing woman's sports as an activity rather than a competition.
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