Kacy Stuart Just Wants to Kick
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Kacy Stuart has an unusual athletic ambition. She wants to be a kicker on a high school football team. Kacy Stuart is fourteen years old and she appears to have been doing fine. Then, it seems, the chairman of the football league discovered that Kacy was a female:
“…For two months, Kacy practiced with the school team, the Crusaders, at New Creation Center, a private Christian academy in McDonough. She participated in drills and even played a scrimmage game Aug. 23.
But a couple of weeks ago, Angie Stuart said, Hank St. Denis, executive board chairman of the Georgia Football League, realized a girl had been accepted onto one of its football teams. St. Denis overruled New Creation’s decision to let her join the team.
“He said she can’t play simply because she’s a girl,” Stuart said.”
link: Girl kicker booted off school football team
Sometimes, battles have to be refought - again and again. Katie Hnida - a female - played for the University of Colorado and the University of New Mexico. The NCAA allowed a female kicker. Apparently the Georgia Football League does not.
Catherine Forsythe
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hall monitor
August 31st, 2008
at 9:48am
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