The court ruling previously cited made no mention of contact, whether inappropriate or otherwise, and just ruled that girls could compete against boys.
The Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas has 5 high schools- Aquinas, St. James, Miege, Immaculata and Maur Hill, if am I not misstaken. I understand the instruction from our Archbishop to only include our archdiocese. I coach at Aquinas, and I know Miege and St. James have complied with the rule, I have no knowledge of the other 2 schools. By the way, Bishop Carroll is in another archdiocese and to my understanding are not operating under the same restrictions.
We are specifically instructed to follow our directive, and to publicly support our archdiocese. I think all of you would do the same, in our circumstance.
Good luck to all at state. Jerry, take some Tums.
Tom Williams
Tom,
I can appreciate the difficult situation this puts you in personally. If you wrestle the kid against the girl, bad things will happen for you. What if this ruling was appealed to above the Arch Diocese level in the Catholic church? This ruling appears to be inconsistent with most of the other regions around the country. I'm not aware of any Arch Diocese's that have made a ruling like this. It looks like this is decision was based on the opinion of one man, not the Caholic church.
It also might of just opened the can of worms nationally too. Some potential ramifications that might occur would affect other sports. What happens if one of the schools in the Archdiocese plays football against a school with a girl on the team, would they have to forfeit the game?
"If pro is the opposite on con, then the opposite of progress is congress"
