Posted on 10/12/2012 6:44:48 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
Erin DiMeglio, 17, made history as Florida's first female high school quarterback
A teenager who made history as Florida's first female, high school quarterback has been crowned Homecoming Queen. Erin DiMeglio, 17, received the honour last night at the Paladin Stadium in South Plantation, as her soccer team, the Paladins, secured a 18-0 victory over the Hollywood Hills. Instead of a dress, the sports enthusiast opted to wear her number 20 football kit for the halftime ceremony.
Talking about the accolade, Miss DiMeglio told the Sun Sentinel: 'It's really cool to be noticed as the homecoming queen and be a football player. I never thought I was going to win. This is crazy.' Her Paladins teammate, wide receiver Hordley Seide, was announced as Homecoming King.
After accepting a sash and tiara Miss DiMeglio added: 'To be with my teammate, I don't think it's ever happened before, a guy and a girl from the football team being king.'
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I was there a little bit later...2001.
I was looking for something in the attic of Mitchell Hall one day and noticed one of the silliest things I have ever seen.
Someone had spent some money at one time making a statue of Billy Mitchell except the artist made him look like and angel complete with the wings. I bet it is still up there.
Interesting. I’ll have to see if any of my buddies who are still in every TDY there. If they do I’ll make them check.
You win! What, I don’t know, but you win!
Nope that wasnit it at all. I grew up with brothers. I played as soon as I could walk....until the coach told my mom I was wearing out his team before the game.
I played a decent qb and was more than respectable at free safety....That said those were the days when girls didn’t play football, period.
I wasn’t referring to those kinds of schools who have lots and lots to select from. Not every town is large. Not every football team is comprised of behemoths.
The guys you sight I wouldn’t have wanted to play against.
I am long past my prime but I do think if someone wants to try out and get the job done ( no cheats by changing the requirements and no putting them on the team for curiosity) then go ahead. My guess is there are very few gals who would want to go out for the football team.
Absolutely true. Her story was initially written up about a month ago. According to her teammates, she can only play in circumstances that are safe for her, so she won't get hurt. So, in other words, they're going to extra trouble to humor this girl's whims. The game might suffer, but who cares---it's all about what she wants, right?
My advice to her would be stop fighting nature, and take off the helmet and put on the tiara.
And seriously, we don’t even have to go that far.
She could do plenty of things that both can do - archery, shooting, rock climbing. Stuff predominately that men do, but without having to invade an all-male team that is all-male for very good reason.
I agree. Unfortunately, some females are compelled to break into male-dominated areas so they can feel “equal.” Frankly, I’ve never understood it. “Different” does not mean “unequal.”
You have an excellent point. A woman that trains for years and reaches the pinnacle of human physical development has about the same strength as an average male with no training.
In over 20 years of taking the Army Physical Training test, I've never seen a female do more than about 20 pushups, (the average is around 10 I'd say, and they absolutely struggle just to do that.) Not once, in 20 years.
Your claim that there are women out there that put men to shame on the benchpress? Suuuuure.
From my 20+ years of experience watching males and females exercise and take physical fitness tests, women aren't just a little bit weaker than men, but dramatically so.
ermmm, soccer is NOT football
The average 20 year old woman has the same lung capacity as a 70 year old man. (Men have 30% larger lungs. The rest of the organs are larger or the same size in women.)
Average female strength is typically 37% - 66% percent of male strength depending on muscle group.
Women's blood contains 20% fewer red blood cells, giving women less endurance and making them more prone to fainting.
Accident rates among women increase faster than men when working longer hours.
Of course, women outlive men by 3-4 years.
Quit using facts. Let’s relying on feelings and outliers.
I don’t want to call BS, but I have a hard time believing you, especially as the APFT requires females (aged 17-21) to perform 19 push ups in order to receive a passing score. Watching ROTC cadets perform the APFT over a two year span, I’d say the median push up count for the female cadets was around mid 30s to mid 40s—not what you’d expect from the average man (given the mimimum of 42 push ups), but nowhere near the 10 you state. I don’t remember a single one performing anything less than mid 20s or so. So, unless my experience was abnormal or you were surrounded by remarkably unmotivated and/or incredibly weak women over your 20+ year career, I think you need to have your memory checked.
The "pushups" that almost every female Soldier I've seen over the past 20 years barely qualify as pushups. They go up and down a few inches and absolutely struggle the entire time. If a male did pushups like that, he'd fail the APFT. I've literally never seen a female do FORTY pushups.
Well, then our experiences seem to be greatly different. The ones I witnessed broke the 90 degree plane while keeping a generally straight profile, just like the men. If they didn’t, the rep wasn’t counted. My sample size is probably much smaller than yours (there were probably no more than 10 female cadets over the two years, as I recall—which may contribute to the median amount being relatively high), but none of the cadets had any difficulty reaching 10 pushups (or even 20) like you reference in your earlier post. Then again, I can’t recall any male cadets having any difficulty reaching the 42 pushup minimum for men either (apart from new cadets experiencing their first APFTs at the beginning of the quarter—where some new cadets of both genders would fail the APFT).
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