Field hockey teams face gender membership issue

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'Both Seminary and Mifflinburg maintain they never recruited boys to play, but that they did not want to deny an opportunity to boys who were clearly interested in the sport.
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“We cannot prohibit boys from playing on girls’ teams, or girls from playing on boys’ teams,” said assistant executive director Melissa Mertz. “The local schools set the policies, and the PIAA can’t overrule that. These are things we wouldn’t choose to get involved in.”

But the issue is a polarizing one, and in the wake of Seminary’s state championship run, it’s become a hot button topic in the field hockey community.

Everyone generally agrees that having a boy on a girls’ team is a competitive advantage, even if the boy isn’t as skilled as Seminary’s Tietze or Mifflinberg’s Catherman.
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The inherent physical advantage has led coaches such as Penn Manor’s Matt Soto to establish a rule against letting boys play on his girls’ field hockey team.'

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