Female wrestlers' discrimination claims rejected

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'SACRAMENTO, Calif.—A judge has rejected the discrimination claims of three female wrestlers at the University of California, Davis, who had to compete against men of the same weight class in order to make the team.

U.S. District Judge Frank Damrell concluded Wednesday that university officials did not violate Title IX, the federal law banning sex discrimination in college sports, or the Constitution's equal protection clause in their treatment of the women.
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He also noted that the women, Arezou Mansourian, Lauren Mancuso and Christine Wing-Si Ng, were given the opportunity to compete for the men's team in 2001 but either declined or did not make it on the squad.

"Plaintiffs were not cut from the men's team because of their sex," the judge wrote. "Rather, plaintiffs were cut ... because, like the other male student-athletes that did not make the roster, they could not compete at the Division I, Pac-10 level in intercollegiate men's wrestling."'