Show In high school sports no nomen nOmen men or women allowed Preston Williams The Washington Post Throw out the record books Across sports and seasons Washington area area high school competition has been fraudulent and theres there's nothing the youth athletics governing bodies in any of the jurisdictions can do about it The have been grossly unfair because in hundreds of events apparently its it's been men against boys and women against girls Oh the athletes are the same ages they always have been Its It's just that in the past several years many high school teams for some reason have ditched the adjectives boys and girls for mens and Its It's not the boys basketball team but the mens basketball team even if only three team members shave four drive and none votes Coaches dont don't identify themselves as girls soccer coaches they're women s 's soccer coaches So what if more of their theft players subscribe to Seventeen than Cosmopolitan Theres There's even a Northern Virginia Women's Basketball Coaching C Association and a Northern Virginia Mens Men's Basketball Coaching Association both high school organizations When did this forced maturation take root and what does giving high school programs a faux college veneer accomplish Why cant can't boys still be boys and girls still be girls At the risk of sounding old getting there and crotchety usually there dont don't kids grow up too fast as it is Shouldn't we resist designating them as men and women until they're well men and women If we accept the definition that men and women are terms to describe adults that means they have by definition attained maturity and legal age How High School Cont Continued on High School Continued from fromAl Al Almany many high school teams out there are composed solely of players played 18 and older Playing to man-to-man does not make a player a man For its junior varsity School in m mMaryland Calvert High Maryland has what its Web site terms mens JV and JV N basketball teams Those dont don't sound like high school squads They sound like bad rec league divisions For the record the Virginia High School League and Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association still boys and girls as use and does this newspaper any other that we have encountered school kids So if high are now considered mena men men do we weSer how and d women a Ser refer to c cone college ll ge of stu students Need of Annual In ln Prostate Checks and Menopausal There also could be legal ramifications to this unnecessarily accelerated adolescence Say a year 16 old high school basketball player gets in trouble with the law Kid Please dont don't throw the book at me Im I'm underage Cop Well if Im I'm not mistaken that's a mens men's high school basketball team you play for buddy boy If it were a boys' boys team we could turn you loose |