Men’s field hockey isn’t an NCAA sport. I think a handful of schools may use men on their practice squads. I’m sure there may be some schools that offer it as a club sport and I’m aware that there is international men’s field hockey. How our men perform in that league is kind of immaterial. My point was that, if you stopped differentiating between men’s and women’s teams or sports, and just recruited the best athletes for each sport, women would end up getting shut out a lot more than they currently are.

There are a lot of guys who can’t get a scholarship for men’s football, baseball, basketball, soccer, etc, because they’re not quite good enough. A lot of those guys would be pretty good if not top tier players if they were on the women’s teams.

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Slowguy

(insert pithy phrase here...)

Was the kick that short on purpose? If not it was a pretty lame kick. Not sure what the point of that was. I guess a novelty thing. Glad they kept her out of a situation where she could have got hammered.

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They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within
Dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good T.S. Eliot

Sarah got it done:

https://twitter.com/.../1337875724691247108

Yea!

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clm
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Noice! FG next step?

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spockwaslen wrote:

Glad they kept her out of a situation where she could have got hammered.

Why, you think women are somehow super fragile?

Here, here's a HS chick putting a solid hit on the returner. :)

That’s pretty cool.

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Civilize the mind, but make savage the body.

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She ‘sent him flying’?

Looked she bounced off and flew the farthest of the two. Probably a weight class thing.

Good hit though. I played coed roller hockey for a time and some of those girls could really put it on you.

Chicks are definitely more ‘fragile’ than men, as a group.

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Civilize the mind, but make savage the body.

- Chinese proverb

Good stuff!

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"You can never win or lose if you don't run the race." - Richard Butler

Nope they brought in a guy to kick a 39 yard field goal, which isn't exactly long. But she did kick another extra point.

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I miss YaHey

I loved seeing how her team rallied around her after she made the points. Also, it was awesome to see the ref bringing the football to her on the sideline......he was trying his best to get her attention, with the ball

Me too. It is cool to see how sports can bring out the best in us.

I wonder how many little girls are outside today trying to kick a field goal(or have been hounded by their dads to come out into the backyard and give it a try). What a time to be alive.

It might be worth noting that the history of the “Power 5” isn’t particularly long. The term has only been in use for about 15 years.

Not to diminish the hard work of Sarah Fuller, but let’s not forget that Katie Hnida kicked extra points for New Mexico in 2003, and April Goss kicked for Kent State in 2015. There have been a handful of other women playing college football for FBS teams as well.

In particular, Hnida had a rough time of it, having originally played for Colorado, where she alleged a teammate raped her, after which her coach and the fans treated her very poorly.

What Fuller is doing is nice, even though she’s only kicking point afters, and another male kicker is kicking field goals (so far). But fortunately or unfortunately, I don’t know that it’s any symbol of significant change. It’s a function of COVID dictated necessity. And in the discussion of her being the “first” the narrative has tended to overlook the women who actually preceded her.

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Slowguy

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