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Daughter Cut From Team, Dad Sues

A South Ogden father is suing Weber School District after his daughter was passed over for the Bonneville High School women’s basketball team. Attorney Rick Westmoreland said his daughter wasn’t cut because of her skill, but because of a district policy that allows just two ninth-graders from each junior high to play at the high school level. "She was number three," Westmoreland said. "So the coach says, ‘We’d love to have you, but we can’t because of the policy.’ " In a lawsuit filed last week in Utah’s 2nd District Court, Westmoreland accuses the district of violating the constitutional rights of his daughter, who is not named in the lawsuit and whom he declined to identify. She is a student at South Ogden Junior High/Salt Lake Tribune. More here.



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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