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From: Mon Jan 20 15:53:13 2003

So much of the important detail is not explained in this article.  What was
the category of the girls' team?  What was the category they entered in the
boys' tournament?  How did they get approval from the OWHA to play in a
boys' tournament?

Louise

*I've got a bunch more questions than Louise...

what am I not aware of here? I cannot conceive of any legal means that would
deny an all-girls' team from participating in any hockey tournament
whatsoever. The reverse is also true. The only legal avenue open to any
sports tournament organizor who wishes gender separation is to provide
seperate, timely, quality events for each gender. Was there an alternative
event that the girls' team could have entered?

The article seems to indicate that various of these girls also play co-ed on
house league, or other teams, as well as the Dolphins. Is the Dolphins a
separate, travel team?

The article also appears to indicate that the Dolphins is either a house
league team in an all-girls' teams division, or it is a "franchise, gold"
team that is allowed to cull all the best players from the area, and then
gets to beat up on the other, hapless, second-class teams in house league
play.

If this is the same level as the other (boys) teams in the tournament, then
great...however, if the Dolphins get to pick the best 14 girl squirt players
from the entire Toronto metro area, and they get to then play against boys
teams that are formed from areas much smaller, then that taints somewhat
their glory. That's kind of like the Japanese little league teams for
decades before Little League leveled the playing field. (Geez, that's an
ironic analogy, isn't it?)

I agree with Louise that the article was intersting, but, in the scheme of
importance to the development of girls' hockey, it opens up more questions
than it answers.

-Dan

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