[Religion and Politics]

The problem I see is there seems to be no girls league for them. Why was that? Probably insufficient interest. Think about it, the best girls players were already playing travel ball and not part of the rec league year to year. By the time 5th/6th grade comes along, school teams start to compete with the rec as well. In our area, to foster the older rec leagues, we play rec dept. to rec. dept., i.e. outside the immediate rec to get enough games.

[DejaJude]

Thanks for the info. Although I had sons, they were not into organized sports.

[JimRed]

Probably insufficient interest. Think about it, the best girls players were already playing travel ball and not part of the rec league year to year.

For going on 40 years our local school system has had adult recreation/open gym a couple of evenings a week. Every once in a blue moon a girl or two would show up, usually college aged and a good player. They were always accepted.

A dozen or so years ago, some women (not those who joined in with us) complained that "the men get the gym, why don't we?" So one of our b'ball nights suddenly became a women's volleyball night. Things went back to normal the following year; few times had enough women showed up to be able to play. Insufficient interest.