Title IX backlash: Girls basketball loses crowds when boys play first

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'Becca Quinn knew her priority should be focusing on her basketball game with a cross-district rival. But it was impossible to ignore the hundreds of fans streaming past her toward the exits.

In fact, her Forest Hills Northern team’s game against Forest Hills Central was delayed to allow for the sweeping exodus right after the 6 p.m. boys game.
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The crowd of more than 1,600 would eventually dwindle to about 300 for the nightcap.

The scenario has left the girls and their coaches using words like “embarrassed” and “humiliated,” but the conference’s athletic directors, wary of legal pressure over a possible Title IX violation, say they have little choice to but to schedule the girls as the late game every other year.

The commission, which operates under the state Department of Civil Rights, argued that as part of Title IX compliance, girls should have equal access to Friday’s second game — what it called the “marquee” game.'