Women's Hoops Blog

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Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Manitoba (Canada)'s human rights commission ruled last month that a boys' high school hockey team could not exclude girls. Now several boys want to try out for girls' teams.

Manitoba high school athletics official Morris Glimcher: "One young fellow [was] just very honest, and he said: 'You know what? We're not good enough to make the [boys'] varsity basketball team. But the girls' basketball … have a smaller ball and we think we could make that team."