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Girl Gets Snaps as Quarterback for Florida High School [Broward County/South Plantation High]
newser.com ^ | 8/29/12 | Kevin Spak

Posted on 08/30/2012 3:13:23 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

Normally a third-string quarterback coming into a preseason game doesn't draw much attention. But it definitely did last Friday, when Erin DiMeglio got her first snap for the South Plantation High School. After all, DiMeglio may just be making Florida history, the Sun Sentinel reports. "I couldn't take the smile off my face," she says. "You'd think the other team would want to know why I'm there, but other players have been great."

State records indicate that 523 girls have played high school football since 1973, but it's unclear how many, if any, played quarterback. "I've never seen anything like this before," one local analyst says. DiMeglio's coach says he had other girls try out for the team just this year, but they couldn't cut it. "Erin can actually do what we ask of her," he says. Still, the 5-6, 160-pound DiMeglio doesn't think her real future is in football; she's just hoping her multi-sport athleticism will impress college basketball scouts.

(Excerpt) Read more at m.newser.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: sports
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To: SoFloFreeper

So in Libworld all boys ages 8-18 must immediately quit playing football due to the 99.999% chance of a disabling concussion. But this is okay?


41 posted on 08/30/2012 6:11:49 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

John Elway statement that “I’d rather have her than Tim Tebow” in 3.....2......1......


42 posted on 08/30/2012 6:12:45 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: ltc8k6

Sure, so let’s end female sports. Just on basketball team, one volleyball team, one swim team, etc.

Best players play, the rest don’t.

If we are going to pretend that bigger people with bigger body mass aren’t better at sports, let’s go all the way.


43 posted on 08/30/2012 6:16:42 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: blu
I'll bet you didn't play football. Think anyone will ever REALLY hit her with everything they have?

Rosie O'Donnell needs to play on her own team in her own league with other dykes.

44 posted on 08/30/2012 6:21:08 AM PDT by Slump Tester (What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
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To: SoFloFreeper
This is a publicity stunt. South Plantation High School is a large high school. It's safe to say there are some very large, very strong males on the team and on the opponents teams. It's also safe to say this girl doesn't volunteer for drills such as "bull in the ring" nor is she selected to be in the ring.

I question if this girl has even experienced a hit from a D1/D2 caliber player in practice?

45 posted on 08/30/2012 6:27:16 AM PDT by fso301
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To: SampleMan

Go ahead and make that leap, it’s your life. No one said anything about ending anything.

Here’s a tip.

When this subject comes up, suggest that a boy be allowed to play on a girl’s team if he wants to.

That always stirs them up.

Imagine Kobe on a WNBA team.


46 posted on 08/30/2012 6:28:16 AM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: DH
I’m just waiting for the first law suit she files after having the living shit knocked out of her by a 200 pound tackle.

Her school has +2K students and is therefore in a large school division where +300lb D1 quality tackles should be expected. I bet coaches see to it that she has little to no contact in practices.

47 posted on 08/30/2012 6:32:40 AM PDT by fso301
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To: momtothree

I won’t let my girls engage in games where they are in physical competition with boys.

It’s actually more harmful to the boys than the girls, because it goes against and destroys their “wiring” to protect the girl.


48 posted on 08/30/2012 6:34:11 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working fors)
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To: MrB

You are right, MrB. It does go against proper male wiring. There were some girls at my son’s high school who told people they were going out for football. The guys said, “go ahead... but you realize you have to do boards, right?” When they asked what that was... they changed their minds after looking at some of the guys they would have to hit. This case is all “feel good”.. she’s third string. The coach knows the chances of her actually get PT is nill to none. She’s a token. You can best believe that this schools team is a laughing stock... I can only imagine some of the comments on the line.


49 posted on 08/30/2012 6:42:11 AM PDT by momtothree
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To: blu

The solution is to end segregated sports. Have A football team, basketball team, baseball, softball, golf, etc. The issue goes away. Unfortunately many female athletes will lose out.


50 posted on 08/30/2012 6:44:27 AM PDT by NCLaw441
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To: ltc8k6
Well, that is precisely my point.

If we are going to pretend, why not go all the way.

If all sports were co-ed and the best players actually started, then we would cease seeing women at any upper level of athletics.

The best women tennis players in the world could not make the top 100 with men.

Track and field numbers aren't even close.

What is the harm in allowing women to play up? It depends. When that allowance encourages young men to treat women with a high level of aggression, there is a great deal of societal harm done. Out in the real world, 99% of women are going to be weaker than 90% of men. We shouldn't pretend that because one 4th grader plays better than one 8th grader, that it is OK to throw both grades into the mix.

Its amazing how much preferential treatment is required to ensure equality. What do you tell girls like this? "Sorry, but there aren't enough girls interested in football to have a team, let alone a league. We also do not provide any opportunities for you in any other exotic sporting desire."

51 posted on 08/30/2012 6:48:57 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: PowderMonkey

My brother in law was chop blocked after getting letters as a junior DT.

Quit. Won’t watch football anymore.


52 posted on 08/30/2012 6:49:46 AM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers.....)
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To: Abundy

As long as there are no special accommodations that need to be made, fine.


53 posted on 08/30/2012 6:53:16 AM PDT by dfwgator (I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
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To: Doogle

She actually looks like a quarterback.


54 posted on 08/30/2012 6:59:15 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: SampleMan

Are you purposely being obtuse?

Of course, with their physical differences, boys on average are better than girls in most sports, and in contact sports mixing much larger boys with the frailest of the girls would be dangerous.

So if most girls are going to have opportunities to play sports, as many would like, they need separate teams.

Yet, there are some girls who are exceptions and can play at the boys’ levels in particular sports. If there doesn’t happen to already be an equivalent girls team for such girls to play on (or even if they’re just that much better so as to be competitive with the boys), what is the problem with letting them play on the boys team?


55 posted on 08/30/2012 7:06:13 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: fso301
This article from Yahoo has the core of what happened:
Dimeglio is the backup quarterback at South Plantation (Fla.) High. She earned the job fair and square, after being encouraged to try out by her coach, South Plantation football and girls flag football coach Doug Gatewood. And the coach asked her to play because he had seen how well she threw the ball as the star quarterback of the flag football team.

In fact, that's where the entire idea started out. As reported by the Miami Herald, Gatewood encouraged Dimeglio to go through spring workouts and the 7-on-7 passing drills with the boys football team as a way to hone her passing skills for flag football in spring 2013. It turns out that she was so good, the boys football team decided it could use her, too.

Her arm may not be quite as strong as some other passers in the area, but she's outstandingly accurate and showed that she had poise under pressure during the 7-on-7 summer circuit.

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Gatewood has promised Dimeglio's parents that he will try and minimize the amount of time she spends in games where the outcome is still in doubt as a way to try and decrease the threat of contact.

She's there to try to maximize her chance of getting a (non-football) athletic scholarship. They're going to try to minimize her chances of being hit. Don't know if they will succeed.
56 posted on 08/30/2012 7:07:25 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (A deep-fried storm is coming, Mr Obama.)
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To: 9YearLurker

Okay, I see your answer above re: thinking it’ll somehow train boys to be aggressive to girls outside of the game situation.

I don’t really see that as a/the problem, but fair enough. Except only a couple of sports have that kind of direct physical aggression. E.g., wouldn’t matter a bit if she were a pitcher in baseball, unless you are against all sorts of coed sports—which I think is crazy.

It is more respectful social interaction—e.g., playing tennis, volleyball, or golf together—rather than less that better socializes men to women, I’m quite certain.


57 posted on 08/30/2012 7:15:45 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: SoFloFreeper

C’mon freeps - get your heads out of the sand. Do your so-called ‘conservative principles’ only go so far, or do they go all the way?

If she’s good enough to make the team, she should. If she earns playing time, she gets it. End of story.


58 posted on 08/30/2012 7:47:40 AM PDT by privatedrive
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To: privatedrive

That is what I said...don’t attack me, please.


59 posted on 08/30/2012 8:06:58 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: PapaBear3625

“... She’s there to try to maximize her chance of getting an athletic scholarship. They’re going to try to minimize her chances of being hit”

Well, that is so special. I wonder if they will allow other NON FOOTBAll playing people on the team? If they are minimizing her chances of being hit than she is for show. She isn’t getting equal treatment... it is special treatment. No different than if they allowed a cheerleader to suit up so she can get a scholarship for cheerleading.


60 posted on 08/30/2012 8:09:39 AM PDT by momtothree
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