Posted on 02/17/2011 9:03:41 PM PST by Amos McCoy
When it became apparent that his opponent in the state tournament wrestling match would be a girl., e would be facing off against a girl, Joel Northrup, forfeited his match to her. As a home-schooled sophomore with a 35-4 record, Joel is also a Christian who takes his faith seriously. So he could not in good conscience wrestle with a girl due to the manner in which a wrestler must grapple with their opponent. If only we had more boys raised to respect the fairer sex as much as Joel has been. His parents are homeschooling him. but he has been allowed to wrestle with the Lin-Mar of Marion Iowa. So Cassy Herkelman of Cedar Falls was able to win her first match at the Iowa State High School Athletic Association State Wrestling Tournament at Wells Fargo Arena on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2011.
Her opponent, Joel Northrup of Linn-Mar of Marion, declined to wrestle her.
"I have a tremendous amount of respect for Cassy and Megan (Black, the tournament's other female entrant) and their accomplishments. However, wrestling is a combat sport and it can get violent at times. As a matter of conscience and my faith, I do not believe that it is appropriate for a boy to engage a girl in this manner. It is unfortunate that I have been placed in a situation not seen in most of the high school sports in Iowa."
His coach Doug Streicher did not speak with the media after the match. The other girl, Megan, lost her match in 52 seconds to the boy she wrestled.
Video of wrestler forfeiting match against a girl.
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A good young man.
So the male either declines the match, endures a humiliating loss, or is booed for being a brutal abuser of women if he wins.
Why on earth would a male want to participate in a sport that would force him to choose between those alternatives?
Like I said on another thread, at just a little younger age I broke a kids arm wrestling at a similar weight. The boy looks pretty buff, I was too. Sad to force a kid to make this decision.
And maybe this girl can handle it, what about the next one?
Amen! What kind of parent allows his daughter to wrestle boys!
Men and women are different and should be treated differently.
I agree.
my congratulations to him and his family for raising such a young man....
how can a teenage boy wrestle with a teenage girl?...what are these parents thinking....
the girl seemed pretty sheepish but I don't know what she nor her father expected...
boys can not have babies...there's lots of things boys can't do and shouldn't do.
...girls must realize that they can protest and demand a lot of "rights" but "rights" don't give you moral permission....
.there's a greater law...a law of common sense...
In mnay states, parents of home-schooled kids have fought successfully for the right of their kids to participate in high school athletics. They's re still paying taxes aren't they? And this is one area of home-schooling where they can't compete with old -fashioned schools.
what passes for manhood......*sigh*....you're pathetic...
now this young man....he is a MAN....more man than a lot of grown men....
You WON the match, Joel!
This also has some things to say about females in combat situations; I mean in the armed forces.
And lest we hear it again that women don’t serve in combat, only the blind and deaf without aid of electronic informational equipment . . . or the deliberately uniformed can think anymore that women are not serving in combat rolls already.
http://wcfcourier.com/sports/high-school/cf_tigers/article_dab8a024-3707-11e0-83f1-001cc4c03286.html
Good for him. Being a sophomore, hopefully he will put on a few pounds of muscle for next year and not have to worry about the situation repeating. I’m still waiting for it to be OK for boys to try out for the girls volleyball team...
I see you are highly experienced. I don’t think girls should compete against men in a contact sport. If they do, they take their chances. No reason they have to get fondled or groped. A good wrestler has no need.
He’s wrestling on a High School team because his parents pay taxes to support the public schools. You have a problem with that?
He’s wrestling on a High School team because his parents pay taxes to support the public schools. You have a problem with that?
If its a sport where there's unlimited slots, like cross country, I don't see a problem.
But in a sport where there's limited slots, such as wrestling weight classes, I think that's a problem. If he won a wrestle off at 112 lbs. and knocked another kid out of wrestling in a match or the state tournament, then its unfair to the kid who actually goes to the school.
I get this, but still oppose the idea. HEck I was a tomboy growing up but there comes a time where that gets set aside. The question remains...why would a girl want to wrestle?
If its a sport where there's unlimited slots, like cross country, I don't see a problem.
(GinRunner is responding to a comment that Home Schooled students have a right to participate in organized wresting with public schooled students.)
But in a sport where there's limited slots, such as wrestling weight classes, I think that's a problem. If he won a wrestle off at 112 lbs. and knocked another kid out of wrestling in a match or the state tournament, then its unfair to the kid who actually goes to the school.
metmom, I am alerting you to this because there seems to be a problem with some that a Home Schooled student would
I posted this yesterday, but it seems someone posted my article again and when I saw it this morning I decided to read the comments. I was quite astonished by some of them, because I could not understand how anyone could think this kid has no right to participate in organized public High School sports just because he is Home Schooled. After all, his parents still pay the taxes needed for those organized sports, so why should he not benefit.
As for those who think he is wrong for not wrestling her, or think he should make her pay by hurting her instead of forfeiting, well I can just say those comments either could not have come from a Christian, or at least a Christian that needs to read the
Seems like a good debate for the Home Schooling crowd to get into. So I am alerting you to the second post of this by amosmccoy, because that is the post where GunRunner made his comment about Home Schooled students have no right to participate.
This is a link to the original article on my site that the whole post is about.
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You don’t get my point.
I do respect the kid for not wrestling her.
But this whole PC insanity thing (this concept of putting girls in boys teams) could be avoided entirely if the PC bullcrap was just stopped. Girls should not be in the boy teams, period.
I am saying the only thing that would perhaps make it through the thick PC heads of mush forcing this on all of us and our kids in school, is an unfortunate event like one of the girls getting hurt because a boy treats them as hard as another boy. I am not saying I’m ecstatic about that happening but pc libs sometimes need to have their perfect plans backfire on them big time in order for them to realize perhaps their perfect PC idea isn’t really that perfect.
Why you would automatically think the worst of my post is sad. Think it through.
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