Amanda Was Told Girls Can’t Play Football
By: Amanda | Age: 14 | On: 03-10-2009
This is one of many reader entries from the Share Your Story section, designed to encourage and inspire other women to rise to the challenge and follow their dreams.
Have you ever been told you can't
because you're a girl?
A couple of weeks ago my history teacher posted the sign-up for freshmen football outside of his classroom. I asked him for a pencil so I could sign up, I was just kidding, because my parents would never let me play football. He responded with “girls can’t play football.” I yelled back that girls can do whatever they set their mind to. He told me that he agrees, but he thinks that girls shouldn’t play football.
I now realize he only said that, because he doesn’t want girls to get hurt playing football. I still believe that a girl can play football if she wants to!!
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gretchen | March 10th, 2009 2:23 pm
Amanda – you are right that girls can play football if they want to play. The problem here is that there aren’t any girls football teams in high schools, but it seems as if more and more girls are wanting to play. It used to be this way in basketball. For me, in the 6th grade, I had to join the boys team in order to play basketball. I think if enough girls start joining the boys teams, we might start seeing girls football as a high school sport just like we now have girls basketball, girls golf teams and girls soccer. Find some friends who are willing to play and see what you can get started. Your efforts may not succeed on the first round, but I guarantee you can get the ball rolling.