She didn't make it 2 weeks into the start of high school football.
She was a great athlete and talented quarterback, but the guys had grown up in the summer between middle and high school and were so much stronger and faster that she got so beat up so bad she had to quit before she was permanently injured and had to quit track and field and sports entirely.
She moved on to girls team sports and did great and was also state champion in several track events .
The reality is that very few women can compete with men physically in areas where strength, speed, agility and endurance are required.
It's just simple biology .
As far as the whole , “Ginger Rodgers did everything Fred Astaire did - backwards and in heels”, go watch Fred and Ginger dance on YouTube.
Ginger was fabulous but Fred was in a league of his own when it came to timing and athleticism.
Correct. Long ago, there was a word for "women's champion" in marathons - it used to be "65th place."