Why skirts in field hockey

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Please seek professional guidance. Account Closed. P erhaps it is a binding problem with all that running and jumping, shorts slipping up in the folds of the crotch. No comments Permalink Share No comments.

I think they might be skorts which are shorts which look like skirts! T o attract more viewers.. Young Anna just had her first real-life run-in with the wild variations between what's expected of women's appearances versus men's. Many sports have traditionally featured a skirt as part of the uniform for women, in the same way that women traditionally wore mainly skirts and dresses. But you might be surprised to learn that some of the sport skirt requirements are actually very recent.

For instance, women's boxing became part of the Olympics for the first time in In , the president of the AIBA, the international association representing amateur boxers, declared that the female boxers would wear skirts , because viewers had a hard time telling the difference between the male and the female boxers in competiton.

After a huge outcry, the AIBA backtracked and said its athletes could wear either skirts or shorts , a policy that still exists today. A similar debate took place in the world of Olympic badminton. She insists that the intention of the uniform is what makes the difference. Jennifer Perkins, of Woodstock, Georgia, has coached lacrosse for 20 years, and played the sport in college. She describes lacrosse skirts as very comfortable and almost identical to tennis skirts and field hockey uniforms, which feature spandex shorts underneath.

Perkins isn't alone in that sentiment, either. Surprisingly, most indicated skirts as their uniform of choice, although there were strong opinions on both sides of the debate.

So we staged a sit-in. I led all the girls in the protest and the next day we wore our frilliest best and sat on the sidelines. If we were mistaken as too precious to play, we were determined to show this teacher just what that looked like. Obviously not with those words since we were in Grade 3. But I am for participation, per cent as they say. Any barrier to playing — that includes gendered typecasting, discrimination, sexualization and a uniform that makes an athlete unrecognizable to herself — is problematic and even damaging.

She plays on the Vancouver Jokers and is, along with other athletes, simply not comfortable playing in a skirt. There is a chance she will walk away from field hockey if she has to wear one. Even in recreational field hockey, not all skirts are alike. Some are slimmer and shorter, others have pleats, some are baggy and loose — kind of like shorts. Although, unlike the FIH, international basketball rules do clearly specify players competing on national teams wear specific clothing: shorts.

For the women who choose to wear a skirt, all the power to them.