Court rules preps schedule biased against some girls

The Detriot Free Press reports:

A federal appeals court has again upheld a lower court’s ruling that Michigan’s prep sports schedule discriminates against girls in some sports.

The ruling issued Wednesday by a three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati stemmed from a 1998 federal lawsuit filed against the Michigan High School Athletic Association by Diane Madsen and Jay Roberts-Eveland, both Grand Rapids-area mothers of female athletes, in conjunction with their group, Communities for Equity.

A telephone message seeking comment was left for a representative of the group. East Lansing-based MHSAA, the state’s governing body for high school athletics,
said it was preparing a statement about the decision.

The focus of the lawsuit was the scheduling of high school sports seasons
involving girls teams. In particular, girls in Michigan play basketball in the fall and volleyball in the winter, the opposite of collegiate schedules.

Critics say that limits the exposure of Michigan’s female prep athletes and may hurt their chances to win sports scholarships, but the MHSAA argues the opposite.

Those amazing government run schools.