NY Teen Banned From Field Hockey for Being Too Good Can Now Play Again
- Posted on May 15, 2012 at 3:58pm by
Billy Hallowell
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SMITHTOWN, N.Y. (The Blaze/AP) — An athletics committee on Long Island has ruled that a 13-year-old boy can keep playing field hockey on the girls’ team at Southampton High School.
Keeling Pilaro, 13, left, plays on the East End Field Hockey club in New York. (AP Photo/Andrew Pilaro)
The ruling is a reversal of fortune for the student, Keeling Pilaro. The boy had played on the girls’ team at Southampton High this season. But, as The Blaze previously reported, the committee decided earlier this spring that his skills had become too advanced for him to continue playing on a coed squad.
(Related: 13-Year-Old Banned from NY Field Hockey Team for Being Too Good)
CBS News has more about the back story:
Keeling was good enough in eighth grade to make varsity after having been reared in Ireland, where field hockey is a popular sport. But his dreams were recently dashed after it was deemed his participation had an “adverse effect” on the game.
“They told me I wasn’t allowed to play because I had advanced skills that I learned in Ireland,” Keeling told CBS 2′s Jennifer McLogan.
In this undated photo Keeling Pilaro, 13, takes a shot as a member of the East End Field Hockey club in New York. (AP Photo/Andrew Pilaro)
Following the decision, the boy appealed. And after a hearing Tuesday, the committee reversed its earlier decision. The new ruling will allow the 4-foot-8, 82-pound student to return for one more season with the girls.
See CBS News correspondent Terrell Brown face-off against the young player:
There are no boys’ high school field hockey teams on Long Island. Today‘s decision was announced by the committee’s attorney.
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eip
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 3:02pmThat little boy should just play real hockey, ice hockey, and leave girl hockey to the little girls.
Report Post »dmar003
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 1:41amI think he should be able to play on the girls team. When I was in little league there were girls that wanted to play. The managers and coaches had a meeting if they were going to let the girls play. There were some of them that were very staunch not to let the girls play. My dad was one of them. They were given a list of girls that wanted to play. My sister was one of them. My dad kinda backed down, so he deciede to let the girls play. The girls praticed with us and there were no problems. Some of the girls were out playing the boys.
Report Post »RetUSAFVet
Posted on May 17, 2012 at 12:38amYears ago when I coached a boys little league team, I had a girl on my team. She earned her posistion as catcher and short stop. One of the other coaches who did not want girls to play forced me to only use her as a SS because of an assinine rule in the little league rule book. It stated that in order to play catcher, the player must wear a protective cup!!!! After that ruling (along with another banning wooden bats) helped me decide to drop baseball and swithch to futball. It was a pleasant change.
Report Post »CTYankee
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 10:53pmTitle IX guarantees that there is equal funding for men (boys) and women (girls) sports, if a girls sport is not available (not enough participants and or teams in the league), then the girl must be allowed to play on the boys’ team, or boys teams funding must be cut to allow for equal funding between both boys and girls whether there are enough girls or not.
Report Post »Title IX is a portion of the Education Amendments of 1972, Public Law No. 92-318, 86 Stat. 235 (June 23, 1972), codified at 20 U.S.C. sections 1681 through 1688, U.S. legislation also identified by the name of its principal author as the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act. It states (in part) that
No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance…
—Title 20 U.S.C. Sections 1681-1688
SKILL of the sport has absolutely nothing to do with sex, being one of the earliest teams in high school to implement Title IX, the girls on our high school soccer team, were not up to the skill level as the boys who had played for a number of years before them. They were accepted as part of the team, whether we liked it or not, we still won and lost as a team.
Now there is a boy that has a skill level higher than his female teammates and they throw him off?
Where do I start with this one?
1. Reverse discrimination, (title IX came arou
dmar003
Posted on May 16, 2012 at 1:32amI think that he should be on the girls team. When I was in little league, the coaches did not want the girls to play. So they had a meeting about if they were going to let girls play. There were many of the managers and coaches that were very staunch about not to have the girls on the teams, my dad was one of them. They were given the list for the girls that wanted to play. My sister was one of the girls who wanted to play. Well my dad decieded to let the girls play. The girls practice with us. There was no problem haveing the girls play, some of the girls, out did some of the boys.
Report Post »bob44044
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 9:05pmWhy is the Blaze running Obama adds on here? Have they totally lost their minds?
Report Post »piper60
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 6:56pmI have no trouble with this article. We don’t need the reasons behind the reversal spelled out. I am just glad this kid finally got justice.
Report Post »txjb
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 10:53pmGot justice ? it’s a girls team , he does not belong on the girls team !!! that‘s why it’s called a girls team !!! damn you liberal retards !!! grow the hell up !!!
Report Post »sonofeire
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 6:05pmIf they allow boys to play on girls’ teams, why do they even call them “Girls’ Teams”?
Report Post »Rohawk
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 10:23pmIts not. Its called field hocky which in the US its assumed that only girls would play. Its the same kind of assumption that‘s made for boys with wrestling which is not called boy’s wrestling.
Report Post »jungle J
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 5:44pmbut, he must play wearing a bra and take prozac.
Report Post »4xeverything
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 4:54pmEqual Justice for all!
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 4:29pm…
Report Post »In all sports, boys should play on boy teams, and girls should play on girl teams, only.
Chris2
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 4:40pmNo, who plays on a team should be left to merit. If he is better than most of the girls that try out for field hockey then let him on the field hockey team.
If a woman can beat most of the men during football tryouts then let her on the football team.
Report Post »phillipwgirard
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 4:42pmYep!
Report Post »Rohawk
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 5:16pmOne exception. I think co-ed wrestling should be left to back seats. I don’t think boys who are rightfully taught not to push girls around should have to deal with the moral delema that a girl on a wrestling team creates OR how an immoral boy may take advantage of the situation.
Report Post »vnachi77
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 4:21pmThere are times like now that I am so disgusted by the poorly written and researched articles posted on the Blaze that I vow to stop reading here. Among other things that a website operated by Glenn Beck who advocated the views of limited government with laws applicable to everyone failed to mention in this piece was the why. Why did the school board reverse their decision? For the same reason that girls are allowed to play high school football, this young man is allowed to play field hockey, it’s called Title IX. The federal law that mandates equal access and protection for women in sports also applies to Keeling when the same sport is not offered to boys. I would think this rather valid and interesting point would have appeared in the article, but then again I guess not.
Report Post »Chris2
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 4:41pm“For the same reason that girls are allowed to play high school football, this young man is allowed to play field hockey, it’s called Title IX”
1. Were not imbeciles or children, we know what Title 9 is and it doesn’t take a genius to put the two together
2. Did you even watch the video supplied?
Report Post »vnachi77
Posted on May 15, 2012 at 4:51pmChris2, a pretty basic tennant of reporting is to assume the reader has no knowledge of the subject and to present the facts to them. As far as did I watch the video, no I did not. I was reading a article, not watching a news broadcast. If information is contained in the video that is not in the article that brings up another problem, A video is supposed to suppliment the article, not the other way around. What are you a stock holder of the Blaze.
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