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Rec Football Bans Gooding Girls

Youth football coach Smokey Legarreta broke a rule for his stepdaughter. Fifth-grader Waycee Irish wanted more time to hang out with her stepdad. She wanted to play football with the boys. She can’t. The Gooding Recreation District forbids her: No girls allowed. Legarreta feared for his future as a youth football coach in Gooding after registering his stepdaughter and a friend of hers, Justice Prince, and allowing them to practice for his fifth-grade Gooding football team/Nick Ruland, Twin Falls Times News. More here. And: Photos here.

Question: Should girls be allowed to play recreation football?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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