[Strikeout King]

Gender boundaries in high school football are slowly becoming a thing of the past.

Girls have thrived at place kicker on numerous teams, and last year, Erin DiMeglio took reps at quarterback at South Plantation.

Count Michaela Malloy as another pioneer for girls playing pigskin, as the 14-year-old attempts to make the varsity squad at McCann Tech (North Adams, Mass.) as a freshman playing on the offensive line, a position traditionally dominated by the biggest, heaviest, most physical boys on a team.

According to the North Adams Transcript, this is Malloy's fourth season of playing football, which she learned from her father, who taught her proper blocking technique.

"I just like the contact sports," Malloy told the North Adams Transcript. "I'm really not a girly-girl."





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[Walt Longmire]

Playing kicker is one thing but you'd have to think physics would take over at some point. I think it would be extremely difficult for a girl to be an impact player on the offensive line.

[RunItUpTheGut]

This is why we have title IX

Girls get volleyball so they have a sport during football season.

[Full deck]

have to say her parents or guardians are stupid for letting her play.

[64SUR]

have to say her parents or guardians are stupid for letting her play.

I must agree with full deck dam if you do dam it you don't hh:hh:hh:

[Diogenes]

There are certainly women who can compete with men on equal footing athletically. Not that many, and not that at the highest levels, but to start for a small high school team? Absolutely. If you think Brittney Griner wouldn't have been able to play varsity for just about every HS basketball
team in Kentucky, you're crazy. And there are certainly women tough enough to fight physically with men and win in contact sports; just watch women's boxing or MMA and you'll see some girls you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley. So it's possible. Now the question of how fair it is under Title IX when there are sports designed specifically for girls for a girl to try and take a boy's spot, or what would happen in the reverse is more interesting. Let's say your school doesn't offer boys volleyball but your son happens to be a really good volleyball player and wants to play on the girls team since there is no boys team. I'm waiting to see that reverse challenge made one day legally and how it results...

[2dog]

It's only a matter of time before lawsuits start to get rules changes that allow girls to play no matter if they have ability or not. The game is being destroyed, one new rule at a time.