Alright, I think it is time for my 2 cents.
I am a girl playing on a guys varsity soccer team. My new school does not have a girls varsity soccer team, but I played on one tfor 2 years before coming here. To tell you the truth, I would much rather be playing on a girls team still, but I don't have that choice. Why should I have to inconvenience myself to play for another high school's girls team?
I do not want to be treated any differently when I am played against, by players, refs, or coaches, but I know that it is inevitable. I give it my all in practices and in games to keep up with you guys, and I don't expect to be given any slack. My coach does not have to play me just because I am a girl and I don't expect him to. He has the right to cut me if he feels that I am not up to the caliber of the rest of the team.
I am hurt by the fact that some of you think that when girls play on guys teams that we are disgracing soccer. That is rediculous. I love playing soccer so much and to be told that the situatiion that I am forced into if I want to play makes me a disgrace is caustic.
I think that every time you play a team with girls on it, you should see them as equals, not as disgraces. I cannot control how the refs call the games, but refs make bad calls all of the time, not just when a girl is involved.
I just want to play.
