College Football:Female kicker can't try out for football team

The Cincinnati Enquirer ^ | April 19, 2003 | AP staff writer

[yankeedame]

Saturday, April 19, 2003

Female kicker can't try out for football team

------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------

By The Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS - Minnesota's football team barred the younger sister of former kicker Dan Nystrom from trying out.

"It's men's college football, and it is not a co-ed sport," assistant athletic director Tim Allen told the Star Tribune of Minneapolis.

Mary Nystrom didn't return phone messages left by The Associated Press on Friday. Dan Nystrom could not be reached for comment.

Mary, a junior, followed her brother as a kicker in high school and wanted to try to do the same in college after spotting the football team's ad seeking a "quality kicker/punter."

The Gophers aren't obligated to give her a tryout because schools can prohibit women from participating in men's contact sports. Once a woman is allowed to participate, she must be treated equally.

Last year, New Mexico's Katie Hnida became the first woman to play in an NCAA Division I-A game when her extra-point attempt was blocked against UCLA in the Las Vegas Bowl.

Other teams have had women on their rosters.

"I'm a little disappointed," Mary Nystrom told the newspaper. "I don't know why I couldn't (try out). But I'm not going to fight it. It's not that big a deal."

Nystrom said more than 20 kickers showed up for the tryout. She said she was allowed to kick on her own, without being part of the official tryout.

She said she can make kicks from 40 yards.

[TXBlair]

"...I can't say I feel to bad about a single female at another school getting a taste of what her so-called saviors in the NOW crowd have done to her."

Ditto that. Look, I'm not saying we girls shouldn't be treated as equals, but sometimes forcefully injecting girls into EVERYTHING means no one ends up with ANYTHING. Men AND women lose. I applaud Minnesota's decision; now maybe the school and student body can look into a separate-but-equal alternative for female students. I no more want to see girls on college football teams than I want to see guys waiting tables at Hooters. It's political correctness run amok.

[Senator Pardek]

1. HS-aged Pardek

2. HS girls' locker room

3. Ambulance for one

[Tribune7]

I'm not saying we girls shouldn't be treated as equals,

When people hear "equality," normal people generally understand it to mean political rights or equal recognition for equal accomplishment, and I think everybody on this forum agrees those are good things.

But gender discrimination is not always bad and its certainly a lot different than race discrimination which is basically always bad.

Seperate public bathrooms for blacks and whites is disgraceful. Seperate public bathrooms for men and women is strongly supported by all but the flakes.

[Arpege92]

I used to love powder puff football! In my high school, the juniors would play against the seniors and this game was watched by the entire school.

[rintense]

Same here! I was proud to lead the juniors over the seniors, and the next year over the juniors. It was the first time in 18 years a class repeated as champs. What a great time that was...

[Husker8877]

Problem with this whole thing is that sooner or later, with the liberal idiots in charge at all the universities, they'll have to let the females kick from a "woman's" tee--10 yards closer. Can't hurt their self-esteem, can we?

And the proof is this chowderhead's statement, made with no apparent irony, that she can actually kick from FORTY WHOLE YARDS! WOW!

There are at least 18 thousand male kickers in high school today who can kick from more than 40 friggin' yards! Hey, if a female can keep up--with absolutely no artificial advantage--then more power to her, of course.

But wouldn't it be exciting if Clintonism invaded college football, as it has many other activities?

[yankeedame]

Problem with this whole thing is that sooner or later, with the liberal idiots in charge at all the universities, they'll have to let the females kick from a "woman's" tee--10 yards closer. Can't hurt their self-esteem, can we?

===============

You've got that right, neighbor! Can anyone say "US military academies", "female cadets" and "gender-norming"?

[nunya bidness]

So gay.

[LurkerNoMore!]

Second!

[Karyn M. PhD]

Ok, so it's a men's college team, not coed. Is there a women's college football team? I suspect not. Perhaps there isn't enough interest among female students. But is that the fault of this young woman? In the absence of an alternative, she asked to try out -- read: not necessarily to play, but to be evaluated as to whether she was good enough to do so -- and was not permitted to do so because (to put it crudely) she pees sitting down. This is simply wrong, no two ways about it.