In recent years, girls have started playing on boys’ sports teams. This is becoming so common that it doesn’t surprise anyone when they hear that a girl is on the boys’ team. Female athletes should not be allowed to play on male athletes’ teams after elementary school. There is a much higher of injury for the girl and having a female teammate might become distracting to the other players. With all of these issues, is having a girl on the team really worth the worry? Boys and girls of the same age most likely have different skill levels. On lehighvalleylive.com it states, “Plain and simple, females are the weaker vessels of the two sexes. It’s not degrading. It’s not an insult. It’s a fact of life.” Females regularly perform better on an all
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All coaches have different ways of motivating a team of boys compared to a team of girls. While coaches can come up with a way to motivate both genders, boys and girls need separate locker rooms, resulting in the coach struggling to give a half-time pep-talk. In an article by Livestrong.com it states, “Boys and girls often wear different styles and cuts of uniforms, doubling the efforts that the teams have to make when selecting uniforms.” Co-ed teams make more than just the players lives complicated. People who believe there should be co-ed teams think that making them play on separate teams goes against everyone having equal rights, but this is not the case. Both genders can play every sport, they should just play on separate teams. Parents may say that it is easier to watch their children when they play on the same team. Nevertheless, even though this may be true, the parents would risk their child having less playing time. Even though girls play on boys teams more and more often, this should not be the case. Both genders being on the same team can negatively affect how the person gets better at the sport, playing time, and the team's coaching method.Co-ed team members can get injured more often and become easily distracted by other teammates. Combined teams can affect so many people, would you want to deal with all of that
All coaches have different ways of motivating a team of boys compared to a team of girls. While coaches can come up with a way to motivate both genders, boys and girls need separate locker rooms, resulting in the coach struggling to give a half-time pep-talk. In an article by Livestrong.com it states, “Boys and girls often wear different styles and cuts of uniforms, doubling the efforts that the teams have to make when selecting uniforms.” Co-ed teams make more than just the players lives complicated. People who believe there should be co-ed teams think that making them play on separate teams goes against everyone having equal rights, but this is not the case. Both genders can play every sport, they should just play on separate teams. Parents may say that it is easier to watch their children when they play on the same team. Nevertheless, even though this may be true, the parents would risk their child having less playing time. Even though girls play on boys teams more and more often, this should not be the case. Both genders being on the same team can negatively affect how the person gets better at the sport, playing time, and the team's coaching method.Co-ed team members can get injured more often and become easily distracted by other teammates. Combined teams can affect so many people, would you want to deal with all of that