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Show 'Lesser' Sport Competition Threatened by State i ' " ' t Tnr- ' .TuJLiLJ - - h,. While Dozier wouldn t say L the action would put the school in violation of Title IX he did say, "it would tend to throw our female sports competition out of balance." Parent Jo Scott urged the board to take positive action in opposing the proposal. "It seems unreal to me that someone would make a decision based upon time away from school especially since participants are engaged engag-ed in an educational activity," acti-vity," she reasoned. Scott was one of the parents instrumental in getting the school's golf program off the ground and she said her daughters have participated in the gymnastics program. "They're the only sports my kids were able to participate in," she added. Dozier said he would do his best to convince the regional board to oppose the action but he admitted the chances didn't look good. "We don't have a good spokesman on the board and we're outnumbered out-numbered by the bigger schools who could care less about those programs," he said. Park City High School Principal Jack Dozier dropped dropp-ed a mild bombshell during Tuesday night's school board meeting when he asked the board for help in convincing the state's school regional athletic board not to drop regional competition among the "lesser" sports including includ-ing tennis, golf and gymnastics. gymnas-tics. Dozier asked for and got board support to convince the regional board during their next meeting that the elimination of those sports would seriously impact the athletic programs at 1A and 2A schools like Park City. The reasons given for the planned action according to Dozier had to do with "kids missing too much school due to athletic events." In addition, state officials cited those sports as being "club" types which could be obtained obtain-ed through private sources. It means there would be no state competition for either boys or girls in tennis, golf or gymnastics though Dozier said the students could bypass the regional competition competi-tion and somehow compete directly with the 3A and 4A schools. However, PCHS "would take its lumps," he noted, "since we're a smaller smal-ler school with limited resources." The action would have the biggest impact on PCHS's girls athletics program since gymnastics is one of the three major sports offered girls at the school. "In light of Title IX compliance I've s tried to balance our sports s program by offering three major sports for the boys and three major sports for the girls. Gymnastics is one of the girls' major sports and we will probably be the 1A and 2A state champions this year and possibly the next several years since we have a young team. The problem is that in our region only three other schools are fielding gymnastics teams this year and next year there may only |