By Tom Haydon | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on December 23, 2016 at 8:00 AM, updated December 23, 2016 at 10:36 AM
KENILWORTH — As a sixth-grader last year, Sydney Phillips earned a spot on the girls basketball team at St. Theresa’s School in Kenilworth. By the end of the season, she was picked as an all-star player.
This year, however, Phillips learned in October that St. Theresa’s was dropping the team because not enough girls were interested. Phillips and her parents quickly approached the school, seeking some options and finally requesting their daughter be allowed to play on the boys team.
Not a good idea…let her play for another girls’ team near Kenilworth.
We have seen this before here in town….
This posting really seems to be in bad taste in light of what has happened in the past in Ridgewood. No good can come of this posting. Please, please remove it.
I’ll come out of exile… if she tries out and can make the cut, why not?
Because it’s not about “making the cut” because there won’t be one. Lawyers are forcing the issue here and parents forcing the issue on an unwitting child who will be shunned by teammates. What about the boys on the team? Do they have a say in this? Nope. It’s all about one girl and her over indulgent parents who can hire lawyers because they can’t say no to their little “superstar”. Pathetic.
The story is not about Ridgewood. You know it is a sensitive subject, take it down.
Don’t see the big deal. The best baseball player probably in Nj was a girl name dead Candace Widner from Waldwick. She played first base for the boys varsity, was a first stringer with a batting average of over .400! She went on to St. Joes , was an all American softball player with another 400 plus bathing average added to her list of growing accomplishments. If you can make the team you should be allowed to play.